United States Ninth Circuit

Unlike the ADA, the definition of a disability under the Unruh Act, California Civil Code section 51, does not require the plaintiff to show that she is regarded as having a present limitation of a major life activity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2003
• Published 08/29/2003

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before W. FLETCHER, FISHER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Claudia Center and William C. McNeill, III, The Employment Law Center, a Project of The Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shawn Hanson and Katherine S. Ritchey, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.