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WARFIELD v. PENINSULA GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB

Docket No. S031285.

10 Cal.4th 594 (1995)

896 P.2d 776

42 Cal. Rptr.2d 50

MARY ANN WARFIELD, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PENINSULA GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

June 29, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Belli, Belli, Brown, Monzione, Fabro & Zakaria, Melvin M. Belli, Kevin R. McLean, Shelley R. Antonio, Vincent M. O'Brien and Randall H. Scarlett for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Jon W. Davidson, Sharon Oxborough, Paul L. Hoffman and Carol A. Sobel as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Ropers, Majeski, Kohn, Bentley, Wagner & Kane, Robert F. Kane, Paul D. Herbert and Stacey L. Pratt for Defendants and Respondents.

Severson & Werson and Jan T. Chilton as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

GEORGE, J.

In the case before us, we are called upon to determine whether California's "public accommodation" statute (Civ. Code § 51, also commonly known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act)1 precludes private social clubs from engaging in prohibited discrimination in their membership policies, and, in particular, whether this statute bars defendant Peninsula Golf & Country Club (hereafter...

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