California Court of Appeal

Health & Saf. Code 1367.25 and Ins. Code 10123.196, which require employers to provide for contraceptive coverage in employee health plans, does not violate the constitutional rights of religious employers whose religious faith opposes birth control.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2001
• Published 07/02/2001

Judges

• SCOTLAND, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Office of James Francis Sweeney, Sacramento, James Francis Sweeney;  Law Office of Tobin & Tobin, Paul Edward Gaspari, and Lawrence R. Jannuzzi, San Francisco, for Petitioner., Gaglione, Coleman & Greene, Robert J. Gaglione, Sacramento;  and Michael D. Ramsey for Catholic Charities USA as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Diepenbrock & Costa, Daniel P. Costa, Sacramento;  and William Wood Bassett for California Catholic Conference as Amici Curiae for Petitioner., Law Offices of Daniel P. Costa and Daniel P. Costa, Sacramento, for California Catholic Conference as Amicus Curiae for Petitioner., Richard D. Ackerman, Corona, and Gary G. Kreep, Escondido, for Life Legal Defense Fund as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Alan Jay Reinach, Westlake Village, for The California Interfaith Coalition etc. et al. as Amicus Curiae for Petitioner., Sidley & Austin, Rebecca K. Smith, Michael S. Lee, San Francisco, Gene C. Schaerr, Jeffrey A. Berman, and James M. Harris, Los Angeles, for Loma Linda University et al. as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth R. Williams, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Kathleen W. Mikkelson, and Daniel G. Stone, Deputy Attorneys General for Real Parties in Interest., Catherine Weiss, Julie Sternberg, Margaret C. Crosby, Ann Brick for American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project et al. as amici curiae for Real Parties in Interest., Lilly Spitz;  Bebe J. Anderson;  and Deborah Baumgarten for California Planned Parenthood Education Fund et al. as Amici Curiae for Real Parties in Interest., McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Beth Harrison Parker, San Francisco;  Donna Lee, San Francisco;  and Eve C. Gartner for Catholics for a Free Choice et al. as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent., McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Beth Harrison Parker, San Francisco;  Donna Lee, San Francisco;  and Eve C. Gartner for Catholics for a Free Choice et al. as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.