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Baker argues in a document filed with the state discrimination agency last May that the club "is a place of public accommodation and a provider of services within the meaning of the antidiscrimination statutes." In other words, the right of association does not apply to Harvard's all-male clubs, according to the Baker legal strategy, because it functions as a semi-official network providing services to an extensive group of members past and present...
...while this accusation represents no legal breakthrough, several of the affidavits and citations filed to date reveal in more concrete terms how Schkolnick and her lawyers hope to force the Fly Club to admit women. The main document that lays out this legal argument is mostly a 29-page compilation of state and federal anti-discrimination precedents--but legal experts say the issues it raises will be around for a long time...
...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...
Dunbrack said that because the state does not permit same-sex marriages, Harvard should ask couples to sign a document testifying to their relationship, rather than seek financial information as proof...
...Requiring a document to get an apartment is absurd--especially if you can't get the document," Woods said. Massachusetts law makes no provision for marriage between two members of the same...