GAY LAW STUDENTS ASSN. v. PACIFIC TEL. & TEL. CO.

Docket No. S.F. 23625.

24 Cal.3d 458 (1979)

595 P.2d 592

156 Cal. Rptr. 14

GAY LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

May 31, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

David C. Moon, Robert E. Mann, Richard Gayer and John Eshleman Wahl for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Thomas F. Coleman, Steven T. Kelber, Donald C. Knutson, Paul Freud Watman, Barbara E. Weiner, Patti Roberts, Anthony G. Amsterdam, Erica Black Grubb, Armando M. Menocal III and Lois Salisbury as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Warren J. Abbott, Assistant Attorney General, Carole R. Kornblum and Richard N. Light, Deputy Attorneys General, Alan C. Nelson, James S. Hamasaki, Calvin A. Mendonca, Harold R. Crookes, Robert V.R. Dalenberg and Gerald H. Genard for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

In June 1975 plaintiffs, four individuals and two associations organized to promote equal rights for homosexual persons, filed the present class action against Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (PT&T)1 and the California Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC).2 The complaint alleged that PT&T...

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