American National Insurance v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission

*611MOSK, J.

I dissent.

In my view the Legislature has not defined “physical handicap” within the meaning of the antidiscrimination law to include ordinary high blood pressure, and respondent commission does not have the power to rewrite the statute to satisfy its belief that such a medical condition should be covered by that law.

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an “unlawful employment practice” for an employer to discriminate in hiring, training, discharge, or compensation of employees because of “race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical handicap,…