I wonder if this applies to lawyers also. If you have something you want to sue someone for, and you pick a lawyer out of the phone book and discuss your beef with him, is he allowed to say no, he won’t take your case?
In the states where I practice, yes. I cannot decline to take on a person as a client for a discriminatory reason (sexual orientation, race, sex, etc). ‘Course, there’s lots of other reason to decline to represent just about anyone.....