North Coast Women's Care Medical Group, Inc. v. Superior Court

*1150Opinion

KENNARD, J.

Do the rights of religious freedom and free speech, as guaranteed in both the federal and the California Constitutions, exempt a medical clime’s physicians from complying with the Unruh Civil Rights Act’s (Civ. Code, § 51) prohibition against discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation? Our answer is no.

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This case comes to us after the trial court granted plaintiff’s motion for summary adjudication of one affirmative defense, thereby determining that no triable issue of material fact existed as to the defense and that plaintiff was entitled to judgment on the…