The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing the case of the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, which last month disinvited a group of black and Latino children who had gone to swim in its pool.

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The department was asked to look into the case yesterday by Sonya Toler, executive director of Gov. Rendell’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs. She said in a letter to Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Civil Rights Division that the commission was “deeply troubled and concerned.”

The letter says, “It is our opinion that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is implicated and a review by the Civil Rights Division . . . is warranted.”

That followed a letter sent to the same office last week by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.), in which he asked the Civil Rights Division to review the matter.

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