Bobbitt Ex Rel. Bobbitt v. Rage Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• allowing action to proceed where plaintiffs, who were forced to prepay for food in pizza restaurant, demonstrated that the restaurant altered a fundamental characteristic of the food service based on race
• finding plaintiffs’ allegations “ao beyond poor service” and meet the § 1981 standard when restaurant defendant required them to prepay, thereby “alter[ing] a fundamental characteristic of the service provide by the public accommodation”
• “While [rude and/or bad service] is regrettable and frustrating, it is a phenomenon familiar to all who eat at restaurants.”
• “there may be some level of bad service that would suffice to satisfy the third prong of the section 1981 prima facie case notwithstanding the successful completion of a sales contract”
• service provided to plaintiffs differed in promptness and attentiveness from that given to white patrons; one group was required to prepay for its food because three Black teenagers had left on the day before without paying
• “While inconvenient, frustrating and all too common, the mere fact of slow service in a fast-food restaurant does not in the eyes of this Court, rise to the level of violating one’s civil rights.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).