Religious Discrimination Found In Refusal To Process Photos

In Santa Clara County, California last week, a Superior Court judge awarded $4000 in damages and $50,000 in attorney’s fees in a religious discrimination suit filed against a local camera store. The court also ordered the store to not discriminate against customers based on their religion or ancestry. The San Jose Mercury News reported yesterday that plaintiff Mitchell Cutler claimed he was discriminated against when the camera store owner refused to make enlargements of dozens of old photos taken in the early 20th century of Cutler’s relatives in Europe and pre-state Israel. Cutler had told store owner David Muston that the relatives in the photos were forced to flee to France after taking part in political and military activities in pre-state Israel. Muston said he assumed the individuals in the photos were Jewish terrorists and his refusal to enlarge the photos was his way of taking a stance against terrorism.