Legal Opinion
Ortiz v. Bank of America
District Court, E.D. California
Decided September 9, 1982No. Civ. S-81-298 LKKPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
KARLTON, District Judge.
“No argument has ever been advanced by any reasonable man against the fact of differences among men. The whole argument is about what differences exist and how they are to be gauged.” Jacques Barzun, Race: A Study in Superstition, 201 (1965).
Plaintiff has filed a modest lawsuit seeking damages for injury she allegedly sustained as a result of defendants’ conduct towards her. Among other statutory predicates, she asserts that defendants are liable for injury under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Defendants assert that section 1981 protects only against “racial” discrimination,…
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