Legal Opinion
New York State Club Ass'n v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 17, 1987PublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Wachtler.
Sensitive to the reality that business is often conducted and professional contacts initiated and renewed in private clubs, the City of New York in 1984 adopted Local Law No. 63. The law is intended to prohibit discrimination in those clubs which, in essence, provide benefits to business entities and to persons other than their own members, thereby assuming a sufficient public character that they should forfeit the "distinctly private” exemption of the City’s Human Rights Law.1 Today, we uphold Local Law No. 63 as a valid and constitutional exercise of…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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3Cited by132 opinions
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