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Article: Ludge orders Florida pizza shop to deliver to Black community of American Beach.(Business)(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- March 9, 1998
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A U.S. District Court judge in Jacksonville, FL, ordered a Domino's Pizza franchise to deliver to a Black community the company said it believed was not safe.
In a racial bias suit filed by James and Joyce Robinson of American Beach, FL, Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Fernandina Beach franchise, operated by Power Pizza Inc., to deliver to the predominately Black community as long as it continued to deliver to the affluent resort of Amelia Island Plantation.
Drivers pass through American Beach, where all but four of the 75 residents are Black, in order to deliver pizza to Amelia Island Plantation.
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