E.E.O.C. v. CHICAGO CLUB

No. 95-2323.

86 F.3d 1423 (1996)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CHICAGO CLUB, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paula R. Bruner (argued), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC, Pamela S. Moore-Gibbs, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jeffrey S. Fowler, Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin & Tominberg, Chicago, IL, Michael F. Rosenblum (argued), Jeri A. Lindahl-Garcia, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before COFFEY, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


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...

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