WELSH v. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

No. 90 C 1671.

787 F.Supp. 1511 (1992)

Mark G.A. WELSH, a minor, and Elliott A. Welsh, his father and next friend, Plaintiffs, v. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA and Boy Scouts of America West Suburban Council # 147, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

March 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard David Grossman, Dannen, Crane, Heyman & Simon, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Thomas D. Allen, Thomas E. Patterson, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, Ill., George A. Davidson, James A. Kobak, Jr., Carla A. Kerr, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case comes before the Court after trial and on the parties' post-trial proposed findings of fact and memoranda of law. The issue posed is whether the Boy Scouts of America properly may exclude from membership persons who are unwilling to profess a belief in and duty to a supreme being under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits places of...

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