Public Accommodations
For more than a decade, the Women’s Law Project has initiated actions to assure equal access and benefits in areas and organizations that serve or are open to the public:
- On October 27, 2005, the WLP filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission on behalf of Tammy Longacre, who races motocross, a sport with a growing women’s participant base. Ms. Longacre paid her entrance fee to Flying Dutchmen Motorcycle Club in Pine Grove, PA, but was denied the opportunity to race because the course no longer ran women's races. The complaint asserts that this denial of opportunity violated Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act.
- The Women’s Law Project also represented plaintiffs alleging gender discrimination at Coatesville Country Club in 2002. In a complaint to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, three woman charged that the club denied them full benefits and privileges of membership, including voting rights, and access to the golf course. (see press release regarding complaint)
- The WLP, with co-counsel Abbe Fletman, of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP, brought a case against Meadowlands Country Club in Montgomery County under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act. The case was brought on behalf of a couple who joined the club expecting to be full members but later discovered the club did not allow women full-member benefits and rights. The case was settled in September 1999 (click here for settlement ).
In June 1997, WLP presented testimony before the City Council of Philadelphia in support of a law to grant nursing mothers the absolute right to breastfeed their babies in public places. The bill was adopted (see testimony). |
