FW: 75% of Minneapolis airport taxis refuse customers with alcohol

2006-09-29 Thread Volokh, Eugene
The color coding sounds like a pretty good accommodation to me. http://www.startribune.com/789/story/709262.html ... About three-quarters of the 900 taxi drivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are Somalis, many of them Muslim. And about three times each day, would-be

Re: FW: 75% of Minneapolis airport taxis refuse customers with alcohol

2006-09-29 Thread Paul Finkelman
Sounds like Plessy v. Ferguson to me. Separate but equal cabs. No way. How far are we willing to take this: what if they say they won't carry people who wear a cross a necklace with the Buddha (a pagan symbol for a devout Muslim); what about a Chistian cab driver who won't pick up someone with

Re: FW: 75% of Minneapolis airport taxis refuse customers with alcohol

2006-09-29 Thread Will Linden
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Paul Finkelman wrote: Sounds like Plessy v. Ferguson to me. Separate but equal cabs. No way. How far are we willing to take this: what if they say they won't carry people who wear a cross a necklace with the Buddha (a pagan symbol for a devout Muslim); what about a