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Lawyer Vows To Continue Fight Against 'Ladies Night'

Updated: Tuesday, 07 Sep 2010, 12:16 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 07 Sep 2010, 12:13 PM EDT

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A self-proclaimed "anti-feminist lawyer" has promised to appeal a Manhattan court's ruling that rejected his claims that "Ladies Night" promotions at bars are sexist and unconstitutional.

Attorney Roy Den Hallander vowed to take his legal fight to stop letting women drink for half-price all the way to the Supreme Court, reported The New York Daily News .

But he confessed that the odds the nation's highest court will agree to hear his case are "about the same as some pretty young lady paying my way on a date."

The New York Post reported that in an unanimous ruling, the court's three judges noted ’ their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks - that Den Hollander "paints a picture of a bleak future, where 'none other than what's left of the Wall Street moguls' will be able to afford to attend nightclubs."

Den Hollander, who sued the Copacobana, China Club, Lotus and others, says militant feminists are to blame for ladies-pay-less bar policies, which he claims violate gender equality laws as well as the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"The guys are paying for girls to party. I don't think that's fair," Den Hollander told The New York Daily News . "It's a transfer of money from the wallets of guys to the pocketbooks of girls."

Den Hollander, who was profiled in a 2007 New Yorker article, began his "anti-feminist" crusades in 2001 when his new Russian bride divorced him after admitting she had only married him for her green card and his money.

In 2008 he filed a lawsuit against Columbia University for offering women's studies courses, which he called "a bastion of bigotry against men." That same year he also filed a suit against the federal government calling parts of the Violence Against Women Act unconstitutional.

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