No Black Nurses

It was settled because it was clearly discriminatory one for the patient to request it and two for the hospital to grant it. Her case was against the hospital as it should have been. The hospital knows better and that's why the CEO came back and said at no time was the man told that they could honor his request.

The hospital wasn't afraid he would win. This is a case of someone not knowing the law and knowing that she can't tell her employees that you can only work on Black patients, White patients, etc.

A patient can make a request, but a hospital, a public hospital cannot discriminate based upon one of those protected classes no matter what the patient demands.

If they don't like the services provided at the PUBLIC hospital, they may choose a private hospital.

 

If he's not getting what he wants there, go elsewhere. He doesn't have a right to force others to participate in his bigotry.

 

Chaney v. Plainfield

 

Gender has been found to be the only thing that the courts are allowing patients to haggle about as patient modesty is a big ethical and privacy concern when practicing medicine.

Most places will just tell you whether or not they are going to be able to accommodate your request, and if they cannot, give you the option to go elsewhere.

It's not the patient. It's the HOSPITAL. She sued the hospital. And as stated, Title VII, prohibits use of race as an occupational qualification, and that/s what it prima facie(on the surface) becomes when you tell white nurses you can only work on white patients or tell black nurses you can only work on black patients. You would end up not hiring qualified black nurses just because there are more white patients, or you would reject an equally qualified white nurse from being hired just because the patients were black.