Legal Opinion
Molar v. Gates
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 23, 1979No. Civ. 20517PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
TAMURA, J.
This appeal involves the constitutionality of the policy and practices pursued by the Sheriff and Board of Supervisors of Orange County of providing minimum security jail facilities with their attendant privileges, including outside work assignments, for male prisoners while denying such facilities and privileges to female inmates. The trial court decided that the practice was violative of the equal protection clauses of the state as well as the federal Constitutions and directed issuance of a peremptory writ of mandate commanding the sheriff and the board of supervisors…
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