Sentences with phrase «public accommodations laws»

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

Huguenin was fined $ 7,000 for violating the state's public accommodation laws, after she refused to provide photographic services to two lesbian women for their wedding in 2006.

«The bottom line is that including a statement in a church's bylaws defining marriage may be of some help should the church's tax exemptions be challenged, or if the church is sued for violating a public accommodations law due to its refusal to host same - sex marriages, but it is no guaranty of protection.»

Schneiderman and the AGs argued in the brief that states have backed laws in the country that require business to comply with laws such as Colorado's public accommodations law.

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.

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]

In the Civil Rights Division, Ms. Levenson handled all phases of civil rights litigation including employment and housing discrimination matters, violations of public accommodation laws and hate crimes.

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The only problem is that it's still legal to fire LGBT employees in 28 states where such workers aren't covered by state laws that protect various minorities from discrimination on the job, as well as in housing and public accommodations.

It is easy to see why that seems like the right tool: Free exercise jurisprudence has frequently involved the crafting of prudential exemptions and accommodations — precisely the carving out of spaces — that could allow religious believers to act on their convictions even in the face of contrary public sentiments or (up to a point) public laws.

Public schools are required by law to make reasonable meal accommodations for celiac patients on a gluten - free diet or kids who are at risk of having a life - threatening allergic reaction to wheat.

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The law directs the human rights commission to develop and distribute materials that provide information regarding a woman's legal right to breastfeed her child in a place of public accommodation.

§ 51.2247.1 (2001) states that a mother may breastfeed her baby in any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement, and clarifies that breastfeeding is not a violation of law, including obscenity laws.

«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.

Arizona has no public accommodation discrimination law protecting sexual orientation.

So my question is, does SB 1062 grant a religious exemption to at least Arizona's state laws governing discrimination in public accommodations?

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.

«These provisions make clear that Indiana businesses are permitted by law to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression in matters including housing, employment, and access to public accommodations.»

Among other things, Local Law 3 protects against bias in areas including public accommodations,» Kelly said.

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

Together, these provisions make clear that Indiana businesses are permitted by law to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression in matters including housing, employment, and access to public accommodations.

The agency enforces the city's human rights law which prohibits discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on race, sex, gender, country of origin and gender identity among other things.

Clarke warned in her letters that the stores may be in violation of state and local civil rights law prohibiting «racial discrimination in places of public accommodation.»

Colorado enacts non-discrimination law: «Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed legislation today prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in housing, public accommodations, credit transactions, juror service, and other areas.

As mentioned previously, receiving a special education designation brings with it certain legal rights for services or accommodations in the public educational sphere, as provided by the federal law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Second, Florida's accounts are available to a subset of children with special needs (the specific diagnoses are included in state law), while Arizona's program is available to all children with special needs who would qualify for an Individualized Education Plan or a 504 plan, as well as the several additional categories detailed above.17 (A 504 plan is a plan developed to provide appropriate accommodations for K - 12 students with special needs attending public schools, as detailed in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.)

The law requires that public schools provide qualified students with disabilities the reasonable accommodations necessary so they get an education comparable to the education of students without disabilities.

However, they are not required to provide the same kinds of accommodations public schools must offer under federal law.

-- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preempt, modify, or amend any State, county, or local law, ordinance, or regulation applicable to food handling which is designed to protect the public health from individuals who pose a significant risk to the health or safety of others, which can not be eliminated by reasonable accommodation, pursuant to the list of infectious or communicable diseases and the modes of transmissability published by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Indiana was, like most states, a Clean Hands state, having a law on the books barring places of public accommodation from serving anything out of the Four.

New Mexico law guarantees a blind, deaf, physically disabled person and / or trainer recognized by assistance dogs training schools the legal right to be accompanied by a specially trained dog in all public accommodations and on all common carriers.

North Carolina recently passed a law, known as House Bill 2, preventing cities and towns from passing laws prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people in public accommodations.

Or that of other commentators like Eric Goldman, who warned (of a related court case) that «all hell will break loose» if the law defines websites as public accommodations and makes them adopt «accessibility»?

He is a nationally recognized practitioner in employment law and has written two treatises on the Americans with Disabilities Act: Americans with Disabilities Act: Employee Rights and Employer Obligations; and Americans with Disabilities Act: Public Accommodations and Commercial Facilities, both published by LexisNexis.

This is not the same as allowing accommodation to take an exam; the lawyer's conduct in the practice of law goes directly to the lawyer's ability to fulfill his obligations to his clients, the general public, and the legal profession.

Contrasting the ADA's requirement to provide accommodations for test taking, the Court said, «respondent can point to no provision of the ADA which would require the State Bar to make accommodations to allow respondent to practice law despite the substantial threat of harm to clients and the public as a result.»

Those positions aren't completely divorced from needing to know the state law, but we sort of make those accommodations for good public policy reasons, right?

There are various federal anti-discrimination laws pertaining to housing, employment, public accommodation, education, and voter registration, but it is not clear how health - research funding would be subsumed under existing discrimination law.

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He practises in all areas of labour and employment law, where he provides advice and representation to employers in the public and private sectors on a wide range of issues such as labour disputes, grievance arbitration, human rights and accommodation matters, and wrongful dismissal claims.

He represents parents and children in public law proceedings including removal from the jurisdiction and has developed a specialism in Secure Accommodation proceedings.

The law provides two narrow exceptions to accommodation: (1) when accommodation would require segregating the employee from the public or other employees, or (2) when accommodation constitutes a violation of some other law prohibiting discrimination or protecting civil rights.

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«With the Local Legal Protections feature available on all property details pages on Trulia, homebuyers will know if their prospective new home is in a place where there are laws to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the areas of housing, employment, and public accommodations,» Trulia general manager and senior vice president Tim Correia wrote in a blog post announcing the tool.

Although many questions remain about whether websites are a «place of public accommodation» under the ADA, including whether a website operator must also have a physical presence to be subject to the law, these cases show that pressure is building on companies to make the information they provide on their websites accessible.

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.