Sentences with phrase «public accommodations»

Counsel representing a retail chain in public accommodation case.

Nor would the current bill protect against local human rights / public accommodations laws.

Private schools are subject to the sometimes less - stringent requirements that apply to restaurants and other public accommodations.

The feature highlights what laws are in place to protect fair and equal treatment in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

[i] These private entities are considered places of public accommodation because they hold themselves out to the public as a business.

It also essentially allows employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and allows discrimination based on sexual orientation in places of public accommodation aka: any business open to the public.

The new rules also apply to cribs currently in use at child care centers and places of public accommodation.

Tefertiller, who will receive a $ 600 prize, argued that a commercial website is a place of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

A source familiar with the amendment said language was added to make it clear that a «crime is a crime» even under a law that protects against bias in areas including public accommodations.

As for Lee, he agrees Uber is bound by public accommodation laws, but also questioned whether the company is committed to ensuring its drivers abide by them.

The ADA provides a list of specific places that are considered public accommodations including «a nursery, elementary, secondary, undergraduate, or postgraduate private school, or other place of education» and «day care center (s).»

31 § 310 (1997) entitles a mother to breastfeed her child in any location of a place of public accommodation wherein the mother is otherwise permitted.

In response to a question about whether it educates its drivers about public accommodation issues, the company pointed to its non-discrimination policy and code - of - conduct to say it is setting expectations that refusal of service based on identity will not be tolerated.

«But it laid the legal groundwork for changes in virtually every aspect of public life, from public accommodation, to the Voting Rights Act and housing.»

In an astonishing move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not issue any regulations for public accommodations websites until fiscal year 2018 — eight years after it started the rulemaking process with an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM).

Bran also defends companies against public accommodation claims under Title III of the ADA, and state and local human rights laws.

The Commission's mandate is to investigate potential violations of the city's Human Rights Law, which forbids businesses that furnish public accommodations, including most private clubs (though not all), from discriminating against customers because of their gender.

This could encourage a policy that would involve some form of public accommodation with the Sandinistas coupled with non-military forms of harassment.

A full - size crib is a bed that: (1) is designed to provide sleeping accommodations for an infant; (2) is intended for use in the home, in a child care facility, in a family child care home, or in places of public accommodation affecting commerce; and (3) that has interior dimensions of 28 ± 5/8 inches (71 ± 1.6 centimeters) in width x 52 3/8 ± 5/8 inches (133 ± 1.6 centimeters) in length.

«Los Angeles Convention Center recognizes public accommodation for all breastfeeding mothers (CA Civil Code 43.3) in any authorized public locations.

«The bill would amend an existing law to give any individual or legal entity an exemption from any state law that substantially burdens their exercise of religion, including Arizona law requiring public accommodation regardless of a customer's race, color, national origin, sex, religion, and disability.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids public accommodations such as restaurants from discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

This is fantasy politics driven by the SUN and the MAIL, but I do applaud Ed balls pledge to crack down on MP who fiddle their expenses and to end the second home allowance and provide public accommodation for them instead.

The feds have long played the same hardball game — to integrate public accommodations, to raise state drinking ages and lower speed limits and so on.

Put - In - Bay also offers the nearest public accommodations.

The issue of how public accommodation laws apply to Uber also surfaced last year after disabled passengers sued the company and its competitor, Lyft, for denying services to passengers with wheelchairs and service dogs.

«Uber drivers are bound by the same public accommodation laws that prohibit New York City taxi drivers and car services from discriminating on the basis of pregnancy when deciding who they will pick up — and those laws are a good thing, as they help ensure that not many babies end up being born on New York City sidewalks.»

Persons with ESAs do * not * have public accommodation rights for their ESA to bring their animal into non-pet-friendly establishments, but the handler does have the right to accommodation for housing in non-pet-friendly housing and for airline travel.

Most hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce

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]

Court Determines That Grocer's Website Not Used to Sell Goods Is Public Accommodation Under the ADA

Findings from the Injustice at Every Turn report, conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, showed alarming rates of violence and harassment experienced by the transgender community, including in educational settings, at work, during interactions with police and other authorities, at homeless shelters, when accessing public accommodations, and in jails and prisons.

Against this background, it's logical to anticipate that a website devoted to the sale of real estate could be found sufficiently connected to physical places to be considered a place of public accommodation subject to the ADA.

While this rulemaking will result in regulations that only apply to state and local governments covered by Title II of the ADA, the Department noted that this rule will help with development of a rule for website accessibility under Title III of the ADA, which governs public accommodations, including real estate agencies and brokerages.

Other public accommodations include restrooms and a couple of showers.

Netflix was held to be a place of public accommodation within the meaning of the Act.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

A bill to ban discrimination in the areas of employment, housing or public accommodations based on gender identity or expression has repeatedly stalled in the state Senate.

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.

Two years ago a Massachusetts court ruled that Netflix, the giant video streaming service, is a place of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act because its website is «analogous» to a brick and mortar store.