Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 318583.pub.pdf

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"Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepresentatives ofthe
United States ofAmerica in Congress assembled, That all persons born in
the United States and not subject to any foreign power, ... are hereby
declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race
and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or
involuntary servitude, ... shall have the same right, in every State and
Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be
parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey
real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and
proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white
citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to
none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the
contrary notwithstanding."

Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409, 422-23, 88 S. Ct. 2186, 20 L. Ed. 2d 1189

4 Act of April 9, 1866, ch. 31, § 1, 14 Stat. 27, re-enacted by § 18 of the Force Act
of 1870, Act of May 31, 1870, ch. 114, § 18, 16 Stat. 140, 144, and codified in §§ 1977
and 1978 of the Revised Statutes of 1873-74, now 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1982.

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No. 31858-3-111
Sambas ivan v. Kadlec Med. Ctr.

(1968) (alterations in original) (quoting § 1 of the 1866 act). It is well settled that the

Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibited private as well as public racial discrimination, and

that the prohibition of private discrimination was within Congress' power under § 2 of

the Thirteenth Amendment. Runyon v. McCrary, 427 U.S. 160, 170, 96 S. Ct. 2586, 49

L. Ed. 2d 415 (1976).