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REICHARDT v. PAYNE

No. C-74-1179 WHO.

396 F.Supp. 1010 (1975)

Martha Ellen REICHARDT, Individually and on behalf of all other women similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Gleeson L. PAYNE, Individually and as Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

April 30, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of John Wynne Herron, John Wynne Herron, Geoffrey B. Stearns, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., of Cal., Mervin R. Samuel, Robert L. Bergman, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for Ins. Commissioner of Cal.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Arthur R. Albrecht, Michael J. Plishner, San Francisco, Cal., for Life Ins. Co. of North America.

Pettit, Evers & Martin, Guy O. Kornblum, Charles S. Loughran, Phyllis E. Andelin, San Francisco, Cal., for Conn. Gen. Life Ins. Co., The Hartford Ins. Group, John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co., Washington Nat. Life Ins. Co.

Harlan M. Richter, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. of America.

Richard J. Kilmartin, Knight, Boland & Riordan, San Francisco, Cal., for Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

Girvan Peck, Morrison, Foerster, Holloway, Clinton & Clark, San Francisco, Cal., for New York Life Ins. Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

ORRICK, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Martha Ellen Reichardt, brings this action on behalf of herself and a class of women who allege they have been discriminated against in purchasing disability insurance policies. She has named as defendants the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California ("the Commissioner"); the Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA"), which is the company that sold plaintiff her disability policy; seven...

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