Legal Opinion
Howe v. Bank of America N.A.
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 16, 2009No. G040669PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BEDSWORTH, Acting P. J.
Plaintiffs and appellants William Howe, Richard Boss and Bashir Ghazialam, acting on behalf of a putative class of “individuals of U.S. national origin and/or ancestry, as well as naturalized individuals,” sued Bank of America N.A., Mexicana Airlines and Visa International Service Association (collectively Bank of America). Their com plaint was that these entities had discriminated against the class in violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Civ. Code, § 51 et seq.) by requiring that United States citizens provide a Social Security number to open a particular…
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