Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. The Chicago Club
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 6, 1996No. 95-2323PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) is apparently dissatisfied with the provision of federal law that places truly private clubs outside its regulatory reach. EEOC seeks to remove this congressionally enacted impediment by interpreting the bona fide private club exemption of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(b) out of existence. Toward that end, EEOC asks us to declare that one of Chicago’s well-known private clubs — the Chicago Club — is not really private. The Chicago Club is not sufficiently selective in its membership to qualify as private, asserts EEOC, because some…
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