RODRIGUEZ v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.

Docket No. L.A. 30271.

12 Cal.3d 382 (1974)

525 P.2d 669

115 Cal. Rptr. 765

MARY ANNE RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 21, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ned Good for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Robert E. Cartwright, Edward I. Pollock, William H. Lally, Stephen I. Zetterberg, Robert G. Beloud, David B. Baum and Leonard Sacks as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Lillick, McHose, Wheat, Adams & Charles, Gordon K. Wright, Kenneth R. Chiate, Schell & Delamer, Martin A. Yester, Ralph D. Kirwan, Waters, McCluskey & Corcoran, Laurence R. Corcoran, Gerald E. McCluskey and Lester W. Miller for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this case we are called upon to decide whether California should continue to adhere to the rule that a married person whose spouse has been injured by the negligence of a third party has no cause of action for loss of "consortium," i.e., for loss of conjugal fellowship and sexual relations. (Deshotel v. Atchison, T. & S.F. Ry. Co. (1958) 50 Cal.2d 664 [

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