“Finding for the plaintiffs in this one would have risked undermining the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That’s why they won’t go near it”
What does the behavior of eating at the Y have to do with civil rights?
Back in ‘64 they used the argument of public accommodations to get the thing passed. Find for the plaintiffs here and some yahoo will soon be claiming that his religion won’t let him rent to black people. Not the same thing I know, but that’s enough to scare the courts away from this.