by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

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by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v… (1964 | noyear)

Thus, it need not be decided whether the outlawing of racial discrimination by a hotel accepting transient guests may be justified on the ground that it is actually in the stream of commerce. The power of Congress, when that body seeks to occupy the full extent of its powers under the Constitution, "extends to those activities intrastate which so affect interstate commerce . . . as to make regulation of them appropriate means to . . . the exercise of the grant of power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce."
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by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v… (1964 | noyear)

Conceding, as it does, that it is regularly engaged in renting sleeping accommodations to out of town guests, seventy-five percent of whom come from without the state of Georgia, and that it "has refused and intends to refuse to rent sleeping accommodations to persons desiring said accommodations, for several different reasons, one of which is based on the grounds of race, unless ordered by this Court to comply with the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," the suit attacks the constitutionality of the public accommodations sections of the Civil Rights Act as applied to such a motel.
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by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v… (1964 | noyear)

All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.
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