Hi Anne!
On 03-30-1998 at 00:43:00AM, Anne Page (1:278/15) wrote to All:
 AP> From UPI NEWS--I can understand store owners not being aware
 AP> of the rules; I can understand--and agree with--the desire of
 AP> owners, etc., to see some identification of a dog as a service
 AP> dog, but this is ridiculous (and sad).
 UN>>        ...State Medical Board investigators say Rose refused to let
 UN>> the blind man into his office with a guide dog on two occasions in
 UN>> November 1996, even when the man was accompanied by the training
 UN>> director of the Guide Dogs of America.    The man was trying to get
 UN>> an eye examination required by the Social Security Administration.
 UN>> Investigators with the State Medical Board launched a probe into
 UN>> Rose's conduct after getting a complaint last year from the guide
 UN>> dogs' group.    Rose is the second Los Angeles businessman convicted
 UN>> in the past three months of refusing access to service dogs. The
 UN>> owner of a fast- food restaurant was ordered to pay $2,700 in fines
 UN>> in January for refusing to let a wheelchair-bound woman into his
 UN>> business with her service dog.
The doctor and restaurant owner should have said that they or their employees 
have allergies or sensitivity to dogs.   If the judge or city wouldn't accept 
that, then that would be unreasonable.  People with guide dogs probably have 
a variety of other business establishments they could choose from.  To single 
out one business like that and then make a big deal about "guide dog 
insensitivities" is ridiculous.
.: /|ug
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