Civil Rights Cases

How courts have described this case

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• holding that public accommodations such as railroads and hotels were immune from federal legislation aimed at racial discrimination because they did not involve state action
• holding that public accommodations such as railroads and hotels were immune from federal legislation aimed at racial discrimination because they did not involve state action
• holding that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not permit Congress to outlaw racial discrimination at the hands of private individuals
• ruling that under the Fourteenth Amendment, it is “state action of a particular character that is prohibited. Individual invasion of individual rights is not the subject-matter of the amendment.”
• deciding that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees individual liberty against governmental and not private invasion
• holding that the Fourteenth Amendment applies to state action, not private action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).