I could see him being forced to sell his team, given the contract he signed.
I could see him not being able to go to a game where the Clippers were playing.
But not being able to go to a game where the Clippers weren’t playing? How is that enforceable?
What next, “no soup for you?” No room for you? No Big Mac for you?
Holmes’ “Reasonable Man”
http://www2.law.columbia.edu/faculty_franke/Torts/Reasonable%20Woman.htm
The Reasonable Person
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-4605-3_7#page-1
Apparently he is going to sell the team. He may have received legal advice to the effect he had no real defense to the league action.
We reserve the right to refuse service. People get banned frequently, usually from just one or two teams because they’re not high enough profile for it to be on the league level. But Sterling is very high profile. You don’t have to rent a room to somebody that your business has decided isn’t welcome (so long as it’s not for reasons that violate a discrimination law), and the same goes for seats at a game.
Used to be a pound of flesh they wanted. Now it is a pound-and-a-half. Liberals reign :-(
The difference here is that it is a contract issue between a corporation and an individual. Any other analogies don’t apply.
Great question. Is it a public accomodation? But then again, he’s not a member of a protected class.