Private Voluntary Bar Association Has First Amendment Right to Discriminate Based on Race, Sex, Sexual Orientation
Dec. 20’s N.J. appellate court decision in Saadeh v. N.J. State Bar Ass’n (opinion by Judge Allison Accurso, joined by Judges Katie Gummer and Kay Walcott-Henderson) upheld various race, sex, sexual orientation, and other preferences that the New Jersey Bar Association—a private, voluntary organization that had as members 16,000 of the 98,000 New Jersey licensed lawyers—set up for various leadership positions. The court applied Dale v. Boy Scouts of America (2000), which held that the Boy Scouts had […]
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