Roberts v. United States Jaycees

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Roberts v. United States Jaycees

Argued April 18, 1984
Decided July 3, 1984

Full case name:	Kathryn R. ROBERTS, Acting Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Rights, et al. v. United States Jaycees.

Citations:	468 U.S. 609
Subsequent history:	709 F.2d 1560, reversed and remanded

Holding

Upheld Minnesota's state antidiscrimination law, prohibiting a private organization from excluding a person from membership based on sex, because the state had a compelling interest in prohibiting discrimination which outweighed the First Amendment right of freedom of association.

Court membership

Case opinions

Majority by: Brennan
Joined by: White, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor

Laws applied

U.S. Const. amend. I U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Roberts v. United States Jaycees, 468 U.S. 609 (1984), was an opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States overturning the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's application of a Minnesota antidiscrimination law, which had permitted the United States Junior Chamber (Jaycees) to exclude women from full membership.

[edit] Majority Opinion

Supreme Court, Justice Brennan, held that: (1) application of the Minnesota Human Rights Act to compel the Jaycees to accept women as regular members did not abridge either male members' freedom of intimate association or their freedom of expressive association, and (2) the Act was not unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.