HARDY v. STUMPF

Docket No. 32689.

37 Cal.App.3d 958 (1974)

112 Cal. Rptr. 739

VERAGENE HARDY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WILLIAM F. STUMPF et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

March 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Clifford C. Sweet, Suzanne Mounts, Thomas Fike and Carolyn E. Jones for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Edward A. Goggin, City Attorney, and William C. Sharp, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

BROWN (H.C.), J.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of mandate instituted by one Veragene Hardy, for herself, and all other women who would be interested in being police officers in the Oakland Police Department.

Appellant challenged the requirement of the Oakland Police Department that applicants for the position of patrolman had to be male, weigh 135 pounds and be 5 feet 7 inches tall...

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