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VARGAS v. HAMPSON

Docket No. L.A. 26594.

57 Cal.2d 479 (1962)

370 P.2d 322

20 Cal. Rptr. 618

ALEX G. VARGAS et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. C.F. HAMPSON, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 26, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.L. Wirin and Richard J. Kamins for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Howard H. Jewel, Assistant Attorney General, Dent N. Hand, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, David B. Finkel, Richard H. Floum, Rudolph Pacht, Ephraim Margolin, Richard J. Archer, Spurgeon Avakian, Robert Baca, Lester Bise, Frank F. Chuman, Marvin J. Colangelo, G. Blandin Colburn, Jr., William C. Dixon, Basil Feinberg, Dan Hammack, Bruce Hochman, Jack Levine, Abe F. Levy, Lloyd E. McMurray, Loren Miller, Anthony V. Randles, Gerald L. Rosen, Irving S. Rosenblatt, Jr., Marshall Ross, John E. Thorne and David Ziskind as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Dennin & Poitevin and William W. Dennin for Defendant and Respondent.

GIBSON, C.J.

Plaintiffs, relying on the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Civ. Code, §§ 51 and 52), brought an action for injunctive relief. General and special demurrers to the complaint were sustained with leave to amend. Plaintiffs failed to amend and are appealing from the judgment of dismissal.

The allegations of the complaint may be summarized as follows: Plaintiffs, husband and wife, are of Mexican ancestry and are citizens of the United States. The...

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