Supreme Court of California

Judgment for a municipality pursuant to its demurrer to a complaint alleging that the exclusion of a volunteer youth group from defendant's free berth program violated plaintiffs' constitutional rights is affirmed where denial of a continued subsidy on the ground that the program was unable to provide adequate assurances of future nondiscrimination did not infringe plaintiffs' associational, speech, or equal protection rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/09/2006
• Published 03/09/2006

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Offices of Jonathan D. Gordon and Jonathan D. Gordon, Pleasant Hill, for Plaintiffs and Appellants., Pacific Legal Foundation, John H. Findley and Harold E. Johnson, Sacramento, for Plaintiff and Appellant Tonatiuh Alvarez., John H. Findley and Harold E. Johnson, Sacramento, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Brad W. Dacus, and Roger G. Ho, Irvine, for Pacific Justice Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, William I. Edlund, San Francisco, Ramiz I. Rafeedie;  and Andrew W. Fortin, for California State Club Association and National Club Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Eric R. Carleson, for American Civil Rights Union as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Hughes Hubbard & Reed, William T. Bisset, Los Angeles, George A. Davidson and Carla A. Kerr, for Boy Scouts of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Kirton & McConkie and Alexander Dushku, for The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints, National Catholic Committee on Scouting, Orestimba Presbyterian Church and Hope ChapelChristian Fellowship as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Sweeney & Greene, James F. Sweeney, Sacramento, and Eric Grant, for California Catholic Conference as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Manuela Albuquerque, City Attorney, Matthew J. Orebic and Laura McKinney, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendants and Respondents., Munger, Tolles & Olson, Jerome C. Roth, Ailsa W. Chang, San Francisco;  and Jon W. Davidson, for Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., as Amici on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Therese Stewart, Burke Delventhal and Ellen Forman, Deputy City Attorneys, for City and County of San Francisco, California League of Cities and California State Association of Counties, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, Warrington S. Parker III, San Francisco;  Miranda D. Junowicz and Oren, Woodland, for Anti-Defamation League and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area as Amicus on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Morrison & Foerster, Mark W. Danis, M. Andrew Woodmansee, San Diego;  Jordan C. Budd, Watson Branch;  Martha Matthews, Los Angeles;  and Margaret C. Crosby, for ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, ACLU Foundation of Southern California and ACLU Foundation of Northern California as Amici on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Suzanne M. Ambrose and Timothy M. Muscat, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amicus on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.