In Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. the United States the issue no longer regarded the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment but was argued on the basis of the commerce clause. This case concerned the right of a motel owner to refuse service to black patrons on the account of their race; he argued that his fifth amendment rights were being violated, he was being placed in a condition of involuntary servitude, that Congress had violated the commerce clause and that he was being denied due process of the law and not being justly compensated. In the end, they pretty much threw all his arguments out the window and since he tried to use a civil rights amendment against the people who were supposed to benefit from it I completely agree and think his
