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...been no. Now, in many courts around the world, the answer would be a highly qualified yes. Writing in the Michigan Law Review, Dr. David A. Gordon, a South African lawyer, notes that the law in most Western nations is finally beginning to recognize the rights of the unborn plaintiff...
Also, an amendment to the act requires that, in order to prove discrimination by individual businesses, a plaintiff must first demonstrate a pattern of discrimination in the area. "Thus, if all restaurants in Cambridge but one serve Negroes," he said, "that restaurant would not be acting in violation of the Civil Rights...
...Sacramento against Crawford Miller, an insurance investigator and landlord who seeks to evict Clifton Hill and his family from their $86-a-month apartment solely because he wants "to rent said premises to members of the Caucasian race." Defendant Miller says the new amendment gives him that right. Plaintiff Hill emphatically disagrees, citing the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment...
...lengthy opinion, Superior Court Judge William Gallagher first seemed to duck the issue by ruling that the suit should have been filed in municipal court. But then he said that the plaintiff was wrong anyhow because the 14th Amendment forbids only state-enforced discrimination in public accommodations. While the state itself may not discriminate against Negroes, he said, the 14th Amendment entitles a U.S. citizen "to discriminate for any reason whatever in his private conduct subject to properly enacted statutory limitations...
...judge's uncompromising answer testified to the plaintiff's success. "Education is tax supported and compulsory," said Sweeney. "Public school educators, therefore, must deal with inadequacies within the educational system as they arise, and it matters not that the inadequacies are not of their making. This is not to imply that the neighborhood-school policy per se is unconstitutional, but that it must be abandoned or modified when it results in segregation in fact...