42 U.S.C. §2000a
(a)All persons shall be entitled to the full and
equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities,
privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place
of public accommodation, as defined in this section,
without discrimination on the ground of race, color,
religion, or national origin.
42 U.S.C. §2000a(b)
(b) Each of the following establishments is a
place of public accommodation within this title if its
operations affect commerce, or if discrimination or
segregation by it is supported by State action:
(1) any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to
transient guests, other than an establishment
located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and
which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence.
(2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or
other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises,
including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the premises of any
retail establishment, or any gasoline
station;
(3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other
place of exhibition or entertainment; and (4) any establishment (A)(i) which is
physically located within the premises of any
establishment otherwise covered by this
subsection, or (ii) within the premises of
which is physically located any such covered
establishment and (B) which holds itself out
as serving patrons of any such covered establishment.
42 U.S.C. § 2000a(c)
(c) The operations of an establishment affect
commerce within the meaning of this title if (1) it is
one of the establishments described in paragraph (1) of
subsection (b); (2) in the case of an establishment
described in paragraph (2) of subsection (b), it serves
or offers to serve interstate travelers or a
substantial portion of the food which it serves or
gasoline or other products which it sells, has moved in
commerce; (3) in the case of an establishment described
in paragraph (3) of subsection (b), it customarily
presents films, performances, athletic teams,
exhibitions, or other sources of entertainment which
move in commerce, and (4) in the case of an
establishment described in paragraph (4) of subsection
(b), it is physically located within the premises of,
or there is physically located within its premises, an
establishment the operations of which affect commerce
within the meaning of this subsection. For purposes of this section, "
commerce" means travel, trade, traffic,
commerce, transportation, or communication among the
several States, or between the District of Columbia and
any State, or between any foreign country or any
territory or possession and any state or the District
of Columbia, or between points in the same State but
through any other State or the District of Columbia or
a foreign country.
42 U.S.C. § 2000a(e)
The provisions of this title shall not apply to a
private club or other establishment not in fact open to
the public, except to the extent that the facilities of
such establishment are made available to the customers
or patrons of an establishment within the scope of
subsection (b).
42 U.S.C. § 2000a-6(a)
Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause
to believe that any person or group of persons is
engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the
full enjoyment of any of the rights granted by this
title, and that the pattern or practice is of such a
nature and is intended to deny the full exercise of the
rights herein described, the Attorney General may bring
a civil action in the appropriate district court of the
United States by filing with it a complaint (1) signed
by him (or in his absence the Acting Attorney General),
(2) setting forth facts pertaining to such pattern or
practice, and (3) requesting such preventive relief,
including an application for a permanent or temporary
injunction, restraining order or other order against
the person or persons responsible for such pattern or
practice, as he deems necessary to insure the full
enjoyment of the rights herein described.
42 U.S.C. § 2000a-6(b)
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It shall be the duty of the judge designated
pursuant to this section to assign the case for hearing
at the earliest practicable date and to cause the case
to be in every way expedited.