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There are no federal laws against discriminating against the poor as a company open to the general public. I suppose you could require everyone who enters your
by retrac 6y ago
There are no federal laws against discriminating against the poor as a company open to the general public. I suppose you could require everyone who enters your restaurant to show proof of $150,000 or more a year in income. Bad business idea, but probably legal.
One might be able to construct an argument that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act with regard to disabled people, but there are so many exceptions, particularly with telecommunications, that the ADA is often toothless. See the recent court decision (likely to be further appealed) that the ADA really just applies to physical premises of a company, and so a non-accessible online shopping site is not an ADA violation: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/appeals-court-rules-stores-dont-need-to-make-their-websites-accessible/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/appeals-court-ru...
I suspect there is little in the media (or in the courts) on this precisely because people in such a situation are socially disenfranchised.