SAIL'ER INN, INC. v. KIRBY

Docket No. L.A. 29811.

5 Cal.3d 1 (1971)

485 P.2d 529

95 Cal. Rptr. 329

SAIL'ER INN, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. EDWARD J. KIRBY, as Director, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 27, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Manuel H. Miller and Julius A. Dix for Petitioners.

Richard Gladstein, Gladstein, Leonard, Patsey & Andersen, and Herma Hill Kay as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Thomas C. Lynch and Evelle J. Younger, Attorneys General, and Henry G. Ullerich, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondents.


OPINION

PETERS, J.

Petitioners, holders of on-sale liquor licenses, seek a writ of mandate to prevent the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control from revoking their licenses because they hired women bartenders, contrary to the prohibition contained in section 25656 of the Business and Professions Code.1 Section 25656 prohibits women from tending bar except when...

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