James v. Churchill Downs, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a statute vesting the racing commission with authority to exclude undesirables from racetracks did not abrogate the common law right
• recognizing the common law right to exclude persons from the track
• “The intention to abrogate the common law will not be presumed and the intention to repeal it by statute must be clearly apparent. Repeal by implication has never been looked upon favorably by the courts.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).