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Abercrombie & Fitch struggled to explain to a federal judge that a fired woman’s headscarf caused the store undue hardship, Law360 reports. In this file photo, the woman, Hani Khan, center, sits with attorney Araceli Martinez-Olguin, left, of the Legal Aid Society and Zahra Billoo, right, executive director of the Council on American-Islamc Relations, during a news conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Abercrombie Struggling To Prove Fired Woman’s Hijab Hurt Sales: Report

Abercrombie & Fitch is having a hard time proving in court that the Muslim headscarf worn by an employee who was fired in 2010 hurt the clothing company’s sales, Law360 reports.

On Tuesday, when a federal judge in California pressed attorney Mark Knueve, who is representing Abercrombie, if he or any of his witnesses had financial records to show the woman’s hijab hurt sales, Knueve said he didn’t.

“A defendant says we’re harmed but provides no real evidence?” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers retorted, according to the report. “And you want me to grant summary judgment [in your favor]?”

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) originally sued Abercrombie in 2011 on behalf of Hani Khan, the Muslim woman who says she was fired from a Hollister store in a California mall in 2010 because she wore a hijab to work. (Abercrombie owns Hollister.)

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