Court Opinion

ID: 9629499
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:43:44.790909+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:46.902803
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CLIFFORD and O’HERN, JJ.,
concurring in judgment.
We agree with the Court’s ultimate conclusions that (1) there was no necessity for the Division on Civil Rights to have conducted a plenary hearing before exercising jurisdiction over the all-male eating clubs, (2) the eating clubs’ special relationship with Princeton University deprived those clubs of exempt *112status as “distinctly private” social organizations under this State’s statutory law guaranteeing civil rights, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to -42, and (3) the clubs’ by-laws and policies against admission of women violated this State’s substantive law. We therefore concur in the judgment.
Concurring in result—Justices CLIFFORD and O’HERN.
For reversal and reinstatement—Chief Justice WILENTZ, and Justices CLIFFORD, HANDLER, POLLOCK, O’HERN, GARIBALDI and STEIN—7.
For affirmance—None.