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MARINA POINT, LTD. v. WOLFSON

Docket No. L.A. 31199.

30 Cal.3d 721 (1982)

640 P.2d 115

180 Cal. Rptr. 496

MARINA POINT, LTD., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. STEPHEN WOLFSON et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

February 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Eugene C. Gratz, Noble, Gratz & Wolfson, Goller, Gillin & Menes, Lawrence C. Nobel, Josseline Charas, Kathleen Doyle and Martha Warriner for Defendants and Appellants.

W. Kenneth Rice, Steven Belasco, Mary K. Gillespie, Stephen R. Nielson, Robert M. Myers, Michael E. Wine, Eugene Roy Salmonsen, Harry M. Snyder, Susan Bartlett Foote, Carl K. Oshiro, Luana Martilla, Sharon Mosley, David A. Garcia, Steven C. Owyang, Joanne A. Lewis, Beverly S. Tucker, Ruby S. Udell, Eric W. Wright, Sidney M. Wolinsky, Richard Friedman, Katherine Wolff, David E. Frank and Fred Okrand as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Richard F. Hamlin for Plaintiff and Respondent. Dennis B. Kavanagh as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.*

In this case we must determine whether, under California law, an owner of an apartment complex may lawfully refuse to rent any of its apartments to a family solely because the family includes a minor child. In the landlord's action to eject the family, the municipal court found, inter alia, that "[c]hildren are rowdier, noisier, more mischievous and more boisterous than adults," and...

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