The Nation - News from Feb. 7, 1986
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A federal judge in Newark voided Kiwanis International’s male-only membership rules and barred the businessmen’s service club from punishing a New Jersey chapter for admitting a female member. “A membership sign of ‘men only’ can be as offensive and repugnant as the sign ‘whites only,’ ” U.S. District Judge H. Lee Sarokin said in his opinion. The ruling, based on New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law and applicable only within the state, involves a Bergen County Kiwanis chapter.
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