Sentences with phrase «forbids public accommodations»
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids public accommodations such as restaurants from discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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In an attempt to redress the wrongs of slavery following its abolition in 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodations.
Both ironic and disturbing: rejecting a First Amendment defense, a New York court says city and state public accommodation law may forbid the left - wing National Lawyers Guild from turning down (in line with its position favoring an Israel boycott) an attempt from a group based in West Bank Israeli settlements to buy an ad in its awards banquet program [Eugene Volokh]