Terence SILO, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
CHW MEDICAL FOUNDATION et al., Defendants and Appellants.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 16, 2002.
May 16, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Fole-v Lardner Weissburg & Aronson, Foley & Lardner, Stephen W. Parrish and John H. Douglas, San Francisco, for Defendants and Appellants.
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Jeffrey A. Berman, James M. Harris, Los Angeles, Gene C. Schaerr and Nicholas Miller for General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, American Baptist Churches in the USA, Clifton Kirkpatrick, as Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Worldwide Church of God, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, California Catholic Conference, Loma Linda University & Medical Center, Adventist Health, Association of Christian Schools International and the Christian Legal Society as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.
Alan J. Reinach, Westlake Village; Alan E. Brownstein; David Lewellyn; Bassi, Martini & Blum and Fred Blum for the California Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.
Law Offices of Steven Drapkin and Steven Drapkin, Los Angeles, for Council on Religious Freedom as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.
Matheny Poidmore Linkert & Sears, Matheny, Sears, Linkert & Long, Eric R. Wiesel, Amanda C. Raffanti and Anthony J. Poidmore, Sacramento, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
MORENO, J.
In this case, we consider whether a Catholic hospital exempt from the Fair Employment and Housing Act (the FEHA), Government Code section 12900 et seq.,1 because it is "a religious corporation ... not organized for private profit" (§ 12926, subd. (d)) and therefore not an "employer" within the meaning of the FEHA, may nonetheless be liable for terminating an employee in violation of public policy (see Tameny v. Atlantic...
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