JR. C. OF C., ROCHESTER, INC., N.Y. v. U. S. JAYCEES, TULSA, OKL.

No. 73-1560.

495 F.2d 883 (1974)

JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ROCHESTER, INC., ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES JAYCEES, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, et al., Defendants. Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 16, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith R. Cohn, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa. (E. Gerald Riesenbach, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants Junior Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thomas S. Rittenhouse, Beverly Lynn Benson, Margaret M. Hipple and Roberta M. Schneider.

Emmelyn Logan-Baldwin, Rochester, N. Y., for plaintiffs-appellants Junior Chamber of Commerce of Rochester, Inc., Janis Gaines, Jane Selman, Charles Wetmore, James T. Bruen, David Heiligman, Thomas Banaszewski and Sydnee Schwartz.

Debra A. Millenson, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant Joann Clevenger.

Josephine L. Citrin, Portland, Maine, for appellant Joan H. Slyne.

James E. Hautzinger and S. Chandler Visher, Dawson, Nagel, Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colo., local counsel to all plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert J. Corber, Washington, D. C. (Gary D. Taylor, Denver, Colo., and Ronald S. Cooper and Kenneth I. Jonson II, Washington, D. C., of counsel, on the brief), for private defendants-appellees.

Ann Belanger, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks and Jonathan S. Cohen, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Nathan G. Graham, U. S. Atty., of counsel, on the brief), for federal defendants-appellees.

Before BREITENSTEIN, McWILLIAMS and DOYLE, Circuit Judges.


WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

This is a sex discrimination case. Appellants seek review of a judgment of dismissal of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The claim of the appellants in the District Court was that the United States Jaycees unconstitutionally excluded the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Rochester, New York and the individual appellants from affiliation and membership in...

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