Nat. Org. for Women v. Little League Baseball, Inc.

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• concluding that membership organizations, although not having a “specific pinpointable geographic area,” are places of public accommodation if they offer advantages and facilities on the basis of a general, public invitation to join
• finding if Little League not place of public accommodation it would be free to discriminate based on race, religion or sex
• holding Little League to be a public accommodation
• classifying a municipal Little League baseball program as a place of public accommodation
• “[Stereotyped conceptions ... [of females are] discordant with current rational views as to the needs, capabilities and aspirations of the female, child or woman.”
• the Little League charter and its statutory history “do show that Congress contemplated participation only by boys; however, they do not show that a limitation exclusively to boys was an avowed congressional objective”

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