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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 42USC2000a-6]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
 
Sec. 2000a-6. Jurisdiction; exhaustion of other remedies; 
        exclusiveness of remedies; assertion of rights based on other 
        Federal or State laws and pursuit of remedies for enforcement of 
        such rights
        
    (a) The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction 
of proceedings instituted pursuant to this subchapter and shall exercise 
the same without regard to whether the aggrieved party shall have 
exhausted any administrative or other remedies that may be provided by 
law.
    (b) The remedies provided in this subchapter shall be the exclusive 
means of enforcing the rights based on this subchapter, but nothing in 
this subchapter shall preclude any individual or any State or local 
agency from asserting any right based on any other Federal or State law 
not inconsistent with this subchapter, including any statute or 
ordinance requiring nondiscrimination in public establishments or 
accommodations, or from pursuing any remedy, civil or criminal, which 
may be available for the vindication or enforcement of such right.

(Pub. L. 88-352, title II, Sec. 207, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 245.)
