RANDALL v. ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL

Docket No. S039161.

17 Cal.4th 736 (1998)

MICHAEL RANDALL, a Minor, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, George A. Davidson, Carla A. Kerr, John Kralik IV and Lois Moonitz Jacobs for Defendant and Appellant.

Paul A. Hoffman, Lacy & Lacy and James V. Lacy as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Jon W. Davidson, Paul L. Hoffman, James Grafton Randall, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Taylor Flynn, Karl Manheim, Morrison & Foerster and Dennis M. Perluss for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Eugene N. Stuart III as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, and Tracey Buck-Walsh, Assistant Attorney General, as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

GEORGE, C.J.

Plaintiffs were prohibited from continuing their membership and advancing in the Cub Scouts by defendant, a regional council of the Boy Scouts of America, because of plaintiffs' failure or refusal to participate in religion-related elements of the scout program and because of plaintiffs' refusal to affirm a belief in God. Plaintiffs successfully sought an injunction...

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