Word: clubbings
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Perhaps the most pressing legal issue is whether or not the Fly Club and the other eight clubs are public or private organizations. It is the lengthiest part of Baker's brief and the one which quotes the most extensively from precedent-setting cases...
...Club is doubtless...a membership club traditionally viewed as private," one document states. "However, as is recognized in the increasingly expansive scope of the public accommodation statute, such discriminatory men-only clubs significantly and adversely impact the economic, political and professional advancement of women...
...bear out this contention, the legal brief sets up several standards for determining if a membership club is public or private. These include: "The degree of selectiveness in membership requirements...the use of facilities by nonmembers...and the the performance of a public function." And even if the MCAD chooses not use Baker's framework, he insists that "No one factor is required, and many are absent in clubs which are nonetheless held to be places of public accommodation...
...complaint contends that the Fly Club is open to non-members, especially at club parties. For example, former Perspective writer Frank E. Lockwood '89 says in an affidavit that he attended a party at the club in July of 1988. "Although I did not receive an invitation from any member, I was admitted to the club with my friend without either of us being asked if we had an invitation," he says...
Lockwood also states that there were between 100 and 200 people attending the party. "This regular admission of nonmembers demonstrates that the Club is not purely private," according to Baker's interpretation...