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  • Paper: Lawful discrimination by businesses creates 'customer caste'

    Sep 30, 2020 8:45 am by Phil CicioraResearch
    Suja A. Thomas, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at Illinois. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • Suja A. Thomas, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at Illinois. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    Judicial rulings on civil rights laws have created a 'customer caste' in which people of color are subject to legal, daily discrimination in retail stores, restaurants and other places of public accommodation, says law professor Suja Thomas.