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D.C. Restaurants Can Legally Shun White Nationalists This Weekend
I'm not sure how, because:
Good morning! @PressSec went to the unaffiliated @RedHenLex last night, not to our DC-based restaurant.
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You have the wrong restaurant. Separate companies separate businesses separate owners no affiliation. That one is in Virginia. Businesses in DC are prohibited from discriminating against people for political affiliation because we are a federal district.
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D.C. restaurants can legally shun white nationalists this weekend https://dc.eater.com/2018/8/10/17674398/ramw-protests-dc-restaurants
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D.C. Restaurants Can Legally Shun White Nationalists This Weekend
The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington is reminding members they can refuse service to rally-goers
by Tierney Plumb Aug 10, 2018, 12:01pm EDT
The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) blasted out an email to its local restaurant members this week, reminding them they have the right to refuse service to a controversial group of protestors expected to descend on D.C. this weekend.
A “Unite the Right” rally is expected to take place at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 12 in Lafayette Park, a downtown area of the city flooded with restaurants and bars. Unite the Right, which translates to “alt-right” or alternative right, is a group affiliated with white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism.
While restaurants can’t legally deny customers based on race, sex, or political affiliation, “a choice not to host a fringe ideological group likely would not violate the DC Human Rights Act’s prohibition on discrimination,” according to the RAMW email obtained by Eater. ... Member services director and policy advisor Eden Raskin Jenkins quotes intel from her association’s general counsel Veritas Law Firm, saying the law “generally permits” a restaurant or tavern to refuse service to an individual or group of individuals.
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The DC Human Rights Act also has an exception for unintentional discrimination based on business necessity, points out RAMW, writing: “It can be argued that the duty of a restaurant or tavern to maintain a safe establishment requires prohibiting members of a fringe ideological group entry due to the potential risk of danger or violence.”
The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington is reminding members they can refuse service to rally-goers
by Tierney Plumb Aug 10, 2018, 12:01pm EDT
The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) blasted out an email to its local restaurant members this week, reminding them they have the right to refuse service to a controversial group of protestors expected to descend on D.C. this weekend.
A “Unite the Right” rally is expected to take place at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 12 in Lafayette Park, a downtown area of the city flooded with restaurants and bars. Unite the Right, which translates to “alt-right” or alternative right, is a group affiliated with white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism.
While restaurants can’t legally deny customers based on race, sex, or political affiliation, “a choice not to host a fringe ideological group likely would not violate the DC Human Rights Act’s prohibition on discrimination,” according to the RAMW email obtained by Eater. ... Member services director and policy advisor Eden Raskin Jenkins quotes intel from her association’s general counsel Veritas Law Firm, saying the law “generally permits” a restaurant or tavern to refuse service to an individual or group of individuals.
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The DC Human Rights Act also has an exception for unintentional discrimination based on business necessity, points out RAMW, writing: “It can be argued that the duty of a restaurant or tavern to maintain a safe establishment requires prohibiting members of a fringe ideological group entry due to the potential risk of danger or violence.”
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