Legal Question in Consumer Law in South Carolina
hotel reservation contract
A relative and her husband made a reservation for one week at a hotel. They stayed 6 days and had one night remaining.They were joined by another relative and friend on the 6th day which the hotel was notified prior to reservation two additional would be joining. When they arrived and relative went down to pay extra charge for the two, abusive language by employee used and were told those kind of people could not stay in the room. One individual, a best life long friend is black. All parties were told to leave and abusive language from night employee continued.
They left to another hotel late at night, in middle of rain, very upset. What claims can be placed against the hotel and employee involved.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: hotel reservation contract
You would clearly need a South Carolina lawyer for this, and I am a Virginia lawyer. However, the real question here is FEDERAL law, not State law. If you can really prove that this happened because the person was Black, this is a cut-and-dried, slam-dunk violation of FEDERAL law. The problem will be that they will make up some other excuse and will say that there was some other problem. So you would need to prove not only what actualy happened but rebut the excuse they make up. So the question is how many witnesses you have and what other evidence you have. If things happened as you described, you have a slam-dunk Federal lawsuit. In fact, you might be able to get legal groups like the NAACP or ACLU to take the case for you at no cost.
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