DYNA-MED, INC. v. FAIR EMPLOYMENT & HOUSING COM.

Docket No. L.A. 32145.

43 Cal.3d 1379 (1987)

743 P.2d 1323

241 Cal. Rptr. 67

DYNA-MED, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. FAIR EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING COMMISSION, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

November 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Mickeal Gehringer, Michael Wischkaemper, McDonald & Allen, Stephen P. McDonald and Rosemary A. Sullivan for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Willard Z. Carr, Jr., Paula L. Hemminger, Jerome M. Behrens, Behrens & Viau, James C. Paras, Morrison & Foerster, Stephen A. Bokat, Paula J. Connelly, Michael D. Ott, County Counsel (Madera), and Greg Kamptner, Deputy County Counsel, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Andrea S. Ordin, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Beverly Tucker and Marian M. Johnston, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.

Joan M. Graff, Robert Barnes, Rebecca I. McKee, Patricia S. Mar, Martha J. Shaver, Feldman, Waldman & Kline, Judith E. Kurtz and Nancy L. Davis as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

PANELLI, J.

In Commodore Home Systems, Inc. v. Superior Court (1982) 32 Cal.3d 211 [185 Cal.Rptr. 270, 649 P.2d 912] (hereafter Commodore Home), we held that a court may award punitive damages in a civil suit for job discrimination pursuant to the California Fair Employment and Housing Act...

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