California Court of Appeal

California does not deny the equal protection of the law to the surviving members of unmarried cohabiting couples when it denies them standing to sue for the wrongful death of the other member.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/15/2004
• Published 09/15/2004

Judges

• JOHNSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rowley & Rinaldelli and Daniel W. Rinaldelli for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman, Kenneth D. Smith and Nicholas M. Gedo, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents.