Patrice L. Goldman, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated v. Standard Insurance Company

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

In 1996, appellant Patrice Goldman, an attorney, applied for a disability income insurance policy with appellee Standard Insurance Company (“Standard”) through a program approved by the State Bar of California and available only to its members. Standard declined to issue Goldman a policy, because she had been diagnosed as having an “Adjustment Disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) 309.28,” and was participating in weekly therapy sessions with a licensed clinical social worker. 1 Standard’s…