From Olympus Spa v. Armstrong, decided today by Ninth Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown, joined by Judge Ronald M. Gould: In 2020, the HRC [Human Rights Commission], the agency tasked with enforcing WLAD ...
The court denies a petition to rehear the case of an all-female spa that violated Washington state's anti-discrimination law.
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling effectively bans women-only spas from operating. The judge who wrote the opinion for the court initially compared the rule restricting use of the facility to ...