McCuller v. Gaudry

In this civil action, defendants appeal a judgment, based on a jury verdict, awarding plaintiff damages for unlawful discrimination in a place of public accomodation, ORS 30.680, 1 and for assault and battery. Defendants assign as the sole error the trial court’s failure to sustain defendants’ objection to the introduction of evidence of a determination by the Bureau of Labor and Industries (Bureau), two years earlier, that defendants had a policy of discrimination in the operation of a supper club.

On September 5, 1978, plaintiff went to The Great Gatsby’s, a bar and nightclub in Portland, to…