Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 10, 2007
Drive-By Discrimination
Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz and Andrew Miller - A case out of the California Supreme Court is breaking new ground in defining discrimination standards. It may also be leading to the end of "ladies's nights" in California bars.
By Steven B. Katz and Andrew Miller
For more than two decades, the plaintiffs' bar has tried to stretch the Unruh Civil Rights Act past its breaking point. It has done this by arguing that the act not only provides a monetary remedy to those who patronize a business and suffer discrimination, but that it also entails the same remedy for those who wanted to patronize a business, but were "deterred" from doing so b...
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