Tillman v. Wheaton-Haven Recreation Assn., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• organization whose only selection criterion is race has “no plan or purpose of exclusiveness” that might make it a private club exempt from federal civil rights statute
• “[t]he only restrictions are the stated maximum number of memberships and ... the requirement of formal board or membership approval”
• “[I]t is not necessary in this case to consider the issue of any implied limitation on the sweep of § 1982 when its application to a truly private club, within the meaning of § 2000a(e), is under consideration.”
• “the 1870 Act was passed pursuant to the Fourteenth [Amendment]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).