Board of Higher Education v. Carter

The State Commission for Human Rights (formerly the State Commission against Discrimination and hereinafter referred to as the Commission), being a State agency created by statute, has only such powers as are conferred upon it by the statute. Its powers, as so conferred, are twofold, namely, (first) powers in specific areas, to wit, the “ power to eliminate and prevent discrimination in employment, in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement, in housing accommodations and in commercial space, because of race, creed, color or national origin ” and (second) the general power “ to…