JESSIN v. COUNTY OF SHASTA

Docket No. 12027.

274 Cal.App.2d 737 (1969)

79 Cal. Rptr. 359

OSCAR JESSIN et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. COUNTY OF SHASTA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

July 11, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Rehberg, County Counsel, for Defendant and Appellant.

Jerey E. Hurley, Jr., for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Paul N. Halvonik, Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, Harriel F. Pilpel, Nancy F. Wechsler, Barbara Joan Marks and Philip K. Jensen as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber, Howard Hassard and David E. Willett as Amici Curiae.


REGAN, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment declaring voluntary nontherapeutic surgical sterilization to be legal in this state, and authorizing defendant County of Shasta to perform such operations upon willing qualified medical indigents, as are the plaintiffs herein.

By their complaint for declaratory relief, plaintiffs, husband and wife and residents of Shasta County, allege they are unable to provide medical care and health services for themselves and...

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