{"id":201,"date":"2020-01-07T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=201"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:08","slug":"public-accommodation-law-applies-to-state-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2020\/01\/07\/public-accommodation-law-applies-to-state-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Public accommodation law applies to state actor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal court in Massachusetts has interpreted the Massachusetts public accommodations statute to apply to a public entity, the Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Transit Authority, when a traveler was denied access to a bus because of his race.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mad.210027\/gov.uscourts.mad.210027.79.0.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brooks v. Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Transit Auth.<\/a>, 2020 WL 30586 (D. Mass. 2020). Government entities are included in the category of &#8220;whoever&#8221; denies access. The court also held that the Authority could be vicariously liable for the acts of its agents acting within the scope of their employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court in Massachusetts has interpreted the Massachusetts public accommodations statute to apply to a public entity, the Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Transit Authority, when a traveler was denied access to a bus because of his race.\u00a0Brooks v. Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Transit Auth., 2020 WL 30586 (D. Mass. 2020). Government entities are included in the category of &#8220;whoever&#8221; denies access. The court also held that the Authority could be vicariously liable for the acts of its agents acting within the scope of their employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}