 HOUSTON, Aug. 4, 2021 PRNewswire -- An African American woman, Sharnez Kavonn Hager, has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, challenging a lower courts dismissal of her racial discrimination lawsuit against Chilis Grill Bar, owned by Brinker International, Inc. NYSE: EAT. The lawsuit accuses Chilis of racial discrimination for refusing to seat her at an open table, only to later offer the table to another customer, who was white. 