Poetry Nightclub along with Wolfgang Puck's Chinois restaurant have both filed a law suit against Caesars Palace and Simon Property Group for what they say is a “discriminatory treatment” against Poetry’s African American clientele.

Poetry story has received lots of coverage in several Las Vegas internet sites and blogs, several hundred customers and Poetry employees attended a “silent observance” at the Forum to protest against what they consider racial discrimination against Poetry's clientele. In the lawsuit, the club’s management complaints that Caesars Palace's decision to close the Forum Shops main entrance at 1 a.m. during weekends is based on racial issues. According to the complaint, Poetry's customers, who are predominately African American, are forced to exit the club through a service hallway packed with garbage containers in where they have find the way in the dark until they come out back at the Forum Shops.

"As it's been expressed to us, corporations are under the impression that too many black people on your property harm business." says Mike Goodwin, Poetry's managing partner. "Poetry Nightclub is an upscale hip hop venue with a large celebrity clientele. To obstruct my customers access to the club because they are the "wrong kind of customer" is a sad reflection on Corporate America." added Goodwin.

The lawsuit considers that the exit route selected for Poetry's customers is a premeditated action by Caesars and Forum Shops owners to drive Poetry out of business because they consider that the large presence of hundreds of African American does not fit well with the 'brand' of the extremely upscale Forum Shops. Poetry Nightclub is located at CaesarsPalace in The Forum Shops next to FAO Schwarz, right above Wolfgang Puck's Chinois restaurant.

The defendants’ motions to dismiss the case are scheduled to be heard before a federal judge in Nevada on December, 2008.