POWER SQUADRONS v. APPEAL BD


59 N.Y.2d 401 (1983)

In the Matter of United States Power Squadrons, Appellant, v. State Human Rights Appeal Board, Respondent. In the Matter of Great Neck Power Squadron, Inc., Appellant, v. State Human Rights Appeal Board, Respondent. In the Matter of Hempstead Bay Power Squadron, Inc., Appellant, v. State Human Rights Appeal Board, Respondent. In the Matter of Westchester Power Squadron, Inc., Appellant, v. State Human Rights Appeal Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 12, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Golomb and Donald K. Barnes for appellants.

Ann Thacher Anderson for State Division of Human Rights, respondent.

Katherine Levitan and Steven R. Shapiro for Bertha Adler and another, complainants-respondents.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Sheila Abdus-Salaam, Peter H. Schiff and Lawrence S. Kahn of counsel), for Robert Abrams, intervenor-respondent pro se.

Beverly Gross, Sonia Fishkin, Judith I. Avner, Marsha Levick and Lynn Hecht Schafran for Women's Bar Association of the State of New York and another, amici curiae.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, JONES, WACHTLER and MEYER concur.


SIMONS, J.

Petitioners appeal from orders confirming determinations that they have unlawfully discriminated against complainants.

It all started in 1973 when complainants Bertha Adler, Charlotte Arutt and Leslie Mayer, all interested in boating, sought to join petitioner United States Power Squadrons and one of its local squadrons, petitioners Hempstead Bay Power Squadron, Inc. (Arutt), Great Neck Power...

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