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In a victory for women’s rights, a Superior Court judge agrees with the ACLU that a Mystic social club is a public accommodation. Sam Corcoran, a Mystic businesswoman, asked for help when she was denied membership in the German Social Society Frohsinn of Mystic. In the three-year period before the suit was brought, the court found, no woman had been made a member, but only one man had been rejected, for special reasons. The club long ago abandoned any requirement of German heritage. That made it not a private club, the court ruled, but a public accommodation that could not discriminate on the basis of gender. More about the case: “Corcoran v. German Social Club”
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