Critical Legal Thinking Business Law

Business Law
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The Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, is land mark case. The congress has renounced discrimination within the public accommodation spaces in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The heart of Atlanta motel which had 216 rooms available for client on transit along the interstate, had a history of renting rooms to white guests alone, discriminating against the African Americans (Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, n.d.). The motel would use national travel media among others to solicit business from outside the state of Georgia and 70% of the guests were from outside the state. The motel owner claimed that the congress was overreaching its authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate a local and private business. He also claimed that the law violated his fifth and thirteenth amendments (Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, n.d.).
In light of the Commerce Clause, the congress certainly has the power to regulate businesses along the interstate. The conditions set forth in the Clause are relative to the need for congress to control the activities of the interstate business along with interstate flow of goods and services.
In the Brown, Governor of California v. Entertainment Merchants Association – Cheeseman, the Entertainment Merchant Association brought on a declaratory charge against the state of California. The association were seeking the invalidation of a newly enacted law that would force the association of companies to label their games relative to the level of violence in protection of the minors. The district court held in favor of the plaintiff (Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, n.d.). In the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the violent video games did not constitute obscenity, the sta...