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McKEON v. MERCY HEALTHCARE SACRAMENTO

No. S054783.

79 Cal.Rptr.2d 319 (1998)

965 P.2d 1189

19 Cal.4th 321

June McKEON, Plaintiff and Appellant. v. MERCY HEALTHCARE SACRAMENTO, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

November 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley G. Booth, April Powell-Willingham, Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehant and Ned P. Telford, Sacramento, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Quackenbush & Quackenbush and William C. Quackenbush, San Mateo, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Foley, Lardner, Weissburg & Aronson, Sacramento, Michael J. Sieradzki, San Francisco, and Stephen W. Parrish, Sacramento, for Defendant and Respondent.

Steven Drapkin, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, Sidley & Austin and Jeffrey A. Berman, Los Angeles, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

WERDEGAR, Justice.

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Gov.Code, § 12900 et seq. (FEHA)) generally prohibits work-related discrimination by employers. FEHA exempts religious entities, however, by excluding from the definition of employer "a religious association or corporation not organized for private profit." (Gov.Code, § 12926, subd. (d)(1).) In this employment discrimination case, the Court of Appeal held the exemption inapplicable to a nonprofit...

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