Summary
The city of Augusta, Georgia, will pay $120,000 to the attorneys for women's group leader Martha Burk to settle a lawsuit claiming that the city improperly limited protests against August National Golf Club's all-male membership. "I'm gratified that the attorneys are going to be paid, but the discrimination at the club still goes on." Burk said in a telephone interview from her boat on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. "The taxpayers are now having to pick up the tab for Augusta National."
Burk, head of the National Council of Women's Organizations, claimed in a March 2003 lawsuit that her constitutional rights were violated by an ordinance that kept her group from protesting near the main gate of the club that hosts golf's annual Masters Tournament.See the full content of this document
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City of Augusta Settles Suit with Burk
City officials said protests by Burk and others during...
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