Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: with the question, this Court might hold Section 1981 to be inapplicablc to claims that not concern the initial formation or eniorcenent f contract See Grersman 975 F.2d at 900 n. {[I]t far from altogether clear that the law before Patterson was universally percei PoA contrar y to the Patterson holding m any event, petitioners plainly err in suggesting that the question whether Section 101 restorative" can properly he determined bi reference to conduct particular individuals may at the time have subjectively believed was Or was not covered by Scction 1981 The mature and reach of law cannot shift and spring on the basis of such individual expectations and understandings; to allow tu do would result in courts having to make unwicldly distinctions between litigants on the basis of their equit ...