Melissa Kay COOK, Individually; Melissa Kay Cook, as Guardian Ad Litem of Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Cynthia Anne HARDING, M.P.H., Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, in her official capacity; Jeffery D. Gunzenhauser, M.D., M.H.P., Health Officer and Medical Director for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Dean C. Logan, Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk for Los Angeles County in His Official Capacity; Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Governor of the State of California; Karen Smith, M.D., M.P.H., Director and State Public Health Officer for the California Department of Public Health; C. M., an adult male believed to be the genetic father of Baby A, Baby B and Baby C; Kaiser Foundation Hospital; Panorama City Medical Center; Payman Roshan, Senior Vice President and Patient Administrator of Panorama City Medical Center; Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued and Submitted November 9, 2017, Pasadena, California.
Daniel P. Barer (argued), Pollak Vida & Fisher, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees Cynthia Anne Harding, M.P.H.; Jeffery D. Gunzenhauser, M.D., M.H.P.; and Dean C. Logan.
Chara L. Crane (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Jennifer M. Kim , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Julie Weng-Gutierrez , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, California; for Defendants-Appellees Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and Karen Smith, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean Masserman , Vorzimer/Masserman — Fertility & Family Law Center, Woodland Hills, California, for Defendants-Appellees Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Panorama City Medical Center, and Payman Roshan.
Before: Stephen Reinhardt and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges, and Wiley Y. Daniel, District Judge.
OPINION
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
The California legislature enacted California Family Code Section 7962 ("Section 7962") to codify California cases that found gestational surrogacy contracts enforceable.1 Among other matters, Section 7962 authorizes the judicial...
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