A discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Phoenix Suns security employee against the team was dismissed with prejudice Thursday.
The case filed in May 2025 by former director of safety, security and risk management Gene Traylor, who is Black, alleges discrimination, harassment based on race and unlawful retaliation.
The dismissal with prejudice means the case is closed, and Traylor cannot refile a lawsuit. The determination came after the discovery and deposition phases of the lawsuit.
“As we have maintained from day one, Mr. Traylor’s claims were based on lies and entirely without merit,” the Suns said in a statement from senior vice president of communications Stacey Mitch. “There was no settlement, and there will be no payment to Mr. Traylor.
“Instead, he has now abandoned these baseless claims, dismissing them and waiving any ability to reassert them.”
Traylor’s suit also said that the Suns failed multiple arena security tests. It claimed that the Phoenix Police Department’s Homeland Defense Bureau conducted tests in 2023 and 2024, during which plainclothes officers were able to smuggle weapons into the arena.
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The team fired Traylor in July 2025 after he filed the lawsuit. At the time, the Suns said he was fired for violating company policies “with respect to confidential information about security operations and he was intentionally untruthful with the investigator.”
Traylor’s suit is among multiple legal actions against the Suns and WNBA team Phoenix Mercury since Mat Ishbia became the controlling owner of the franchises in February 2023.
Ishbia and two minority owners who filed a lawsuit against him agreed in March to undergo mediation to resolve another lawsuit over alleged financial mismanagement.
Attorney Sheree Wright represented Traylor and three other plaintiffs in cases involving discrimination complaints.
Earlier this month, Wright was disciplined by a federal judge for using AI-generated fabrications in a separate case against the Suns by plaintiff Chelsea Montes, AZ Central reported. Montes worked in the marketing department and made claims involving racial and gender discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation.
In November 2024, Andrea Trischan sued the team, alleging racial discrimination and unlawful retaliation that led to her termination. Trischan was the team’s former manager of diversity, equity and inclusion for about 10 months in 2022 and 2023.
Former Mercury interim coach Nikki Blue also filed a lawsuit against the organization, alleging unequal treatment based on race and gender, unequal pay based on race and that her employment was terminated in retaliation for complaints about unequal treatment.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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