article_snippet.sent: Tuesday's ruling comes nearly a year after Stiviano's recording of Shelly Sterling making racially offensive remarks bounced Shelly Sterling from the NBA and cost Shelly Sterling team ownership.
article_snippet.sent: Shelly Sterling filed the suit against Stiviano about a month before the recording of Shelly Sterling telling Stiviano not to associate with black people created an uproar and led the NBA to ban Shelly Sterling for life and fine Shelly Sterling $2.5 million.
article_snippet.sent: It was Stiviano who recorded the now-infamous conversation with Shelly Sterling in which Shelly Sterling berated Stiviano for associating with black people and urged Stiviano not to bring minorities with Stiviano to Clippers basketball games.
article_snippet.sent: In the furor sparked when the remarks were made public, the NBA banned Shelly Sterling from the league for life, and Shelly Sterling was ultimately forced to sell the Clippers franchise Shelly Sterling had owned for 33 years for a record $2 billion.
article_snippet.sent: Wife speaks: Shelly Sterling, estranged wife of former Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling, and Wife attorney Pierce O'Donnell arrive at Los Angeles Superior Court last month.
highlights_snippet.sent: Shelly Sterling had sought to be returned .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Ruling comes nearly a year after Stiviano's recording of Shelly Sterling making racially offensive remarks that cost Shelly Sterling ownership of the Clippers .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Shelly Sterling had filed the suit  about a month before the recording of Donald telling Stiviano not to associate with black people created an uproar .