Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibiting workplace discrimination specifically exempts a “bona fide membership club” that is federally tax-exempt under section 501(c). A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has recently decided that the Centre Hills Country Club in State College PA meets the definition and is exempt from the rules. It has dismissed on summary judgment a claim brought by a female former employee. The criteria for the classification are set out in the Compliance Manual of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Court says there appears to be only one appellate case in the nation reviewing the EEOC position, a 1996 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals case dealing...