Aldred v. Duling’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. ““The restrictions imposed by the Richmond ordinance apply equally to males and females; neither can perform massages on customers who are members of the opposite sex. Until [the ordinance became effective], Bo-Jac’s all-male clientele had requested masseuses exclusively. The ordinance simply prohibits such a practice. It does not, as a legal matter, require Bo-Jac to hire or fire anyone; nor on its face, does it restrict the gender of the customers that Miss Masseuse may serve. As a practical matter, the ordinance made unlawful the only business Bo-Jac had conducted, the business of supplying masseuses to service male customers, but, surely, Title VII cannot be read to foreclose the enactment of ordinances which have the effect of making unlawful conduct which may not have been unlawful when Title VII was enacted. [The female massagist] was not discharged because of her sex; her employment was terminated because her employer went out of business. It had no work to be done which [she] could lawfully perform.” Id., 538 F.2d at 638 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stratton v. Drumm