FARMERS INS. GROUP v. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA

Docket No. S041795.

11 Cal.4th 992 (1995)

906 P.2d 440

47 Cal. Rptr.2d 478

FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, Christopher D. Burdick, David M. Rice and Martin R. Gran for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Silver, Shaeffer & Hadden, Lawrence J. Friedman, Stephen H. Silver, Susan Silver, Patricia A. Shiu, Christopher Ho, William C. McNeill III, Joyce Tom, David B. Oppenheimer, Elizabeth Mohr, Elizabeth E. Bader, Joan Wolff, Deborah M. Hall, Benjamin C. Sybesma, Joel H. Levinson, Susan Beecher Sandoval, Dawn M. Schock and Mary Ann Soden as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Steven M. Woodside, County Counsel, Ann Miller Ravel, Chief Assistant County Counsel, James Rumble, Deputy County Counsel, Marron, Reid & Sheehy, Martin H. Dodd and Michael A. Futterman for Defendants and Respondents.

Thomas F. Casey III, County Counsel (San Mateo), Christine E. Motley, Deputy County Counsel, James E. Holst, John F. Lundberg, Christopher M. Patti, Whitmore, Johnson & Bolanos, Richard S. Whitmore, Kathryn J. Burke, Nancy J. Clark, Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy, Douglas H. Barton and Diane Marie O'Malley as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

This case presents the issue whether, under the Tort Claims Act (Gov. Code, §§ 825-825.6, 995-996.6), the County of Santa Clara (the County) must indemnify one of its deputy sheriffs and pay his costs for defending against a sexual harassment lawsuit where the evidence is undisputed that the deputy sheriff lewdly propositioned and offensively touched other deputy sheriffs working at the county jail. We...

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