DOMBROWSKI v. DOWLING

No. 71-1147.

459 F.2d 190 (1972)

Joseph L. DOMBROWSKI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jack DOWLING and Arthur Rubloff & Co., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Cushman, Richard S. Ratcliff, Jeffrey G. Liss, Chicago, Ill., Price, Cushman, Keck & Mahin, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for defendants-appellants.

Jeffrey Schulman, George B. Collins, Chicago, Ill., Collins & Amos, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge, and STEVENS and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.


STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

The outcome of this litigation depends on three critical issues: (1) whether obnoxious discrimination by a private business is proscribed by § 2 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 18711; (2) whether the Brunswick Building is a "public accommodation" within the meaning of § 201(b)(4) of the Civil Rights Act of 19642; and (3) whether defendants refused to rent space in that building...

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