In 2009, Cristine Miles found a copy of his most recent ad, along with a stack of mimeographed “applications” in his house.

His ad appeared on September 17, 2008, in the Domestic Care and Services sections of the Seattle Post Intelligencer’s south county editions:

Auburn resident looking for live in housekeeper. Female preferred. Light housekeeping, companionship, light cooking, shopping etc. Room and board + wages. Salary negotiable. Call 555-1234.

About half of Garcia’s questions ignored equal rights edicts. He asked women who answered his ads to fill out his applications; they had to give their ages, their heights and weights, whether they had a husband or a boyfriend, if they...