Supreme Court of California

The Fair Employment and Housing Commission's authority to award emotional distress damages to housing discrimination complainants, in light of the judicial option provision amendment to FEHA (section 12989), does not violate the separation of powers doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2002
• Published 07/29/2002

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Nancy A. Konig, in pro. per., for Plaintiff and Appellant., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Jeffrey A. Berman, James M. Harris, Los Angeles, and Melissa Grant for Employers Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank and Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Catherine Z. Ysrael and Kathleen W. Mikkelson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant., Covington & Burling and Michael A. Listgarten for National Fair Housing Alliance as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Law Office of James D. Smith and James D. Smith for Nonprofit Fair Housing, Disability Rights and Legal Services Organizations as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.