The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305967304
Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 1CT
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Case summary:The Civil Rights Act was passed by Congress to prohibit racial discrimination in “establishments affecting interstate commerce”. The owner of HAM violated the act by refusing to accommodate African Americans and filed a case to get the act declared as unconstitutional. The case was dismissed by the district court. The appeal was filed before the Supreme Court which upheld the act as constitutionally valid.
To explain:The judgment when a business involved a small private retailer that did not advertise on a national level.
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