Research Catalog

Title

A right to discriminate? : how the case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale warped the law of free association / Andrew Koppelman ; with Tobias Barrington Wolff.

Author

Koppelman, Andrew

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wolff, Tobias Barrington

Description

xiv, 178 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

In the case Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, the Supreme Court ruled that the Scouts had a right to expel gay members. The authors look at whether the Scouts and other noncommercial associations have a right to discriminate when selecting their members, and whether the state should have a legitimate interest in regulating the membership practices of private associations.

Subject

• Dale, James > Trials, litigation, etc
• Boy Scouts of America > Trials, litigation, etc
• Freedom of association > United States
• Discrimination > Law and legislation > United States
• Associations, institutions, etc. > Law and legislation > United States
• Boy Scouts > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Gay people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Federal aid to higher education > United States

Genre/Form

• Trial and arbitral proceedings
• Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-168) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Origins of the right to exclude -- Signs of the times : the Dale opinion -- The Solomon amendment litigation and other consequences of Dale -- The neolibertarian proposal -- Is the BSA being as bad as racists? : judging the BSA's antigay policy -- Why regulate the BSA?

ISBN

• 9780300121278 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 030012127X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008051621

OCLC

• 262432384
• SCSB-10362626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library