The phrase "accommodations law" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legal regulations or policies related to accommodations, such as those for individuals with disabilities.
Example: "The accommodations law requires businesses to provide necessary adjustments for employees with disabilities to ensure equal opportunities."
Alternatives: "disability accommodation regulations" or "accessibility legislation".
In effect, the troop is contending that its First Amendment rights supersede the public accommodations law of New Jersey.
If the court agrees, its decision would prevent any state from applying its public accommodations law to require that the Scouts accept gay members.
The state interests embodied in New Jersey's public accommodations law do not justify such a severe intrusion on the Boy Scouts' rights to freedom of expressive association.
"They supported a public accommodations law only after sit-ins and boycotts inflicted heavy losses and it became clear that these pressures were not going to fade away as the latest student fad.
What may not be obvious is the overriding legal premise in the case: that a public golf course comes under a state's public accommodations law and that the law applies to tournaments as well as individual play.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told Mr. Wolfson that "I can well understand" why public accommodations law should apply to organizations that have a commercial purpose, like the Jaycees or the Rotary Club in the earlier cases.
In a 1999 decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts violated the state public accommodations laws by the dismissal.
A variety of statutes including pass and accommodations laws was crafted to control the numbers of Africans coming to cities. Black African women and children were not allowed in the cities.
Nor would the current bill protect against local human rights/public accommodations laws.
(See also Daniel Koontz, Hostile Public Accommodations Laws and the First Amendment, 3 NYU J. Law & Liberty 197 (2008).
The operative word here is "existing" for we already have employment, housing, and public accommodations laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, disability, and national origin.
