In a puzzling and offensive exchange, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge likened a female-only Olympus Spa policy to a “whites-only” policy. The remark was made during a federal appeals court ...

Victoria Marshall is a news reporter for Family Research Council's Washington Watch and is a contributor to The Washington Stand. A federal judge compared a female-only entrance policy for a ...

From Olympus Spa v. Armstrong, decided today by Ninth Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown, joined by Judge Ronald M. Gould: In 2020, the HRC [Human Rights Commission], the agency tasked with enforcing WLAD ...

The court denies a petition to rehear the case of an all-female spa that violated Washington state's anti-discrimination law.

A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling effectively bans women-only spas from operating. The judge who wrote the opinion for the court initially compared the rule restricting use of the facility to ...