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Starbucks is being sued in D.C. Superior Court — but it has nothing to do with its expensive, burnt tasting coffee. WTOP reports that a Norfolk, Virginia man is suing the company after his daughter found a video camera installed inside one of the two unisex bathrooms at the Starbucks near the entrance to the Archives Metro station.

William Yockey and family, from Norfolk, Va., were visiting the nation’s capital April 23, 2011. After sightseeing, they stopped in the Starbucks at 7th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest, across the street from the Archives Metro station in Penn Quarter.

In the complaint, Yockey and his 5-year-old daughter found one of the two unisex bathrooms locked. They used the other. After both used the toilet, the daughter noticed a small video camera, lodged in the U-joint of the sink, pointing toward the toilet. Yockey determined the camera was on and recording digital images.

Police were called, and the video camera was confiscated for a criminal investigation.

Yockey and his daughter are claiming that they suffered “permanent and continuing emotional pain and suffering, humiliation, embarrassment and great emotional distress.” The complaint was filed with Superior Court in May; a date for the next portion of the trial has not yet been set, according to a review of court documents.

It’s hardly the first time we’ve heard of cameras being used to record people inside bathrooms at Starbucks across the country. Just this May, a California man was arrested and charged with taping 45 female victims using a Starbucks restroom with a camera disguised as a coat hook; a month later, a Tampa man was arrested for placing a camera on a pipe inside a Starbucks bathroom; while a simple Google search brings up dozens of other similarly slimy incidents.