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From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Fraudulent Coin Calls
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In article <13600@accuvax.nwu.edu> ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin
Ellsworth) writes:

>> ... To totally exclude all non-USA citizens who are visiting us from
>> receiving credit is one thing -- to issue credit to <some> out of
>> country people and not others is illegal. ... PAT

>If DISCRIMINATION of foreign nationals based on country of origin is
>legal (and I believe it is), then *by definition* they may do
>precisely that.  You are free to discriminate against anyone you like
>on any basis EXCEPT those specifically mentioned by law.  The
>protection of these laws, when push comes to shove, is most likely
>only extended to citizens of the USA.

	I doubt that this has been tested in court, and I'd bet that
the civil rights law says "discrimination against any person...", not
"discrimination against any citizen of the United States...". I think
it's been demonstrated that this is a gray area in the law.

	Most likely it would come down to whether PAT or AT&T had the
best lawyer :^).

	Followups to soc.lobotomized.lawyers.

	Jeff Carroll
	carroll@atc.boeing.com


[Moderator's Note: Well, they would have the best lawyers, I suppose.
Anyway, I don't like most lawyers, and agree with Bill Shaekespeare's 
suggestion for dealing with them -- at least all except the seven who
have employed me for a few years now. Or else they work for me, I keep
forgetting exactly how we have it arranged.  PAT]