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Saturday, September 26, 2026

Golf Club Exempt From Female Employee's Sexual Harassment Claim - Bloomberg Law

A former server at a State College, Pa., golf club can’t sue for sexual harassment under federal law because the club falls under the law’s “bona fide membership club” exemption.

Centre Hills Country Club qualified for the rarely invoked Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act exemption because its tax exempt, private, and had in place “meaningful conditions of limited membership,” the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said. It cited the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s compliance manual and a 1996 ruling by the Seventh Circuit, which it said “appears to be the only published ...

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