Legal Opinion
Scott v. Family Ministries
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 30, 1976No. Civ. 47576PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
THOMPSON, J.
The appeal at bench tests the right of a private state-licensed adoption agency to impose religious restrictions upon prospective adoptive parents over and above the religious matching requirements of California Administrative Code, title 22, section 30643. It raises incidental insubstantial issues of the sufficiency of pleadings, standing, and a claim of prejudice of the trial judge.
We determine that by reason of the significance of private-licensed adoption agencies in the California statutory scheme and the extent to which the California law delegates to those agencies…
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