Attorney General charges the historically male-dominated Pine Valley Golf Club engaged in “a pattern of gender-based discrimination.”
a civil rights complaint
Club officials did not respond to calls, texts or emails seeking comment. But Pine Valley told state investigators that it had lifted all restrictions on membership and use of its facilities based on sex or gender by the spring of 2021 after the Division on Civil Rights had commenced its investigation, the state said.considered among the greatest golf courses in the world
From its founding over 108 years ago until approximately April 2021, the club prohibited women from becoming members and — with extremely narrow exceptions— prohibited them from playing golf or otherwise accessing club facilities, the state charged in its complaint. The borough was a legally incorporated New Jersey municipality where all the land was owned by the golf club and served no other purpose than as gatekeeper for the club. Essentially, the club was the borough.The complaint alleged that the club used discriminatory restrictive covenants to prevent women from owning houses on the club’s land unless they co-owned a house with a man.
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