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BOWLAND v. MUNICIPAL COURT

Docket No. S.F. 23484.

18 Cal.3d 479 (1976)

556 P.2d 1081

134 Cal. Rptr. 630

ALICE ELIZABETH BOWLAND et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Defendant and Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

December 6, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Anne Flower Cumings, Cumings & Jordan and Mary V. O'Hare for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Roger S. Hanson, Nancy L. Davis, Mary C. Dunlap, Joan Messing Graff, Wendy W. Williams, Alice Daniel, Joseph Remcho, Deborah Hinkel and Ellen Lake as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

No appearance for Defendant and Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Derald E. Granberg and Jamie Jacobs-May, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

OPINION

RICHARDSON, J.

Plaintiffs challenge the constitutionality of Business and Professions Code section 2141, which prohibits the unlicensed practice of the healing arts. (Unless otherwise indicated, all statutory references are to the Business and Professions Code.) They are charged with violations of section 2141 in that as unlicensed persons they have practiced or held themselves out as practicing midwifery. The plaintiffs,...

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