Concord Rod & Gun Club, Inc. v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

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• concluding that smoking ban in private club would not interfere with members’ ability to maintain protected relationships with each other
• noting that “determinative factor” in characterizing organization — already stipulated by parties as being “place” and “accommodation”- — as “public,” and thus subject to state antidiscrimination law, is “total absence of genuine selectivity in membership”
• noting that the constitutionally protected freedom of association encompasses both intimate and expressive associations
• gun and sportsman club place of public accommodation because there was “total absence of genuine selectivity in membership”
• extending definition to include fishing and hunting club
• Concord Rod & Gun Club

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