The U.S. Supreme Court announced on March 18 that it will not review a decision by Hawaii’s Intermediate Court of Appeals, which ruled in February 2018 that a small bed & breakfast operating in a private home in the Mariner’s Ridge section of Hawai’i Kai, violated Hawaii’s civil rights law by denying accommodations to an unmarried lesbian couple who were planning a trip to Hawaii to visit a friend. Hawaii’s civil rights law forbids businesses … <Read More>
Cervelli v. Aloha Bed & Breakfast
Hawaii Appeals Court Says Religious B&B Owner May Not Reject Same-Sex Couples as Customers
Hawaii Appeals Court Says Religious B&B Owner May Not Reject Same-Sex Couples as Customers
The Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii has affirmed a ruling by the state’s 1st Circuit Court that the operator of an owner-occupied Bed & Breakfast violated the state’s public accommodations law by refusing to rent a room to a lesbian couple from California who were seeking vacation accommodations. The opinion for a three-judge panel of the court by Chief … <Read More>