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Lesbians schoolgirls lose suit over explusion

By Jonathan Hayter

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An appeals court in California has decided this week that a private religious school in Riverside County was not a business and therefore did not have to comply with a state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating when it expelled two 16-year-old girls for having ?a bond of intimacy? that was ?characteristic of a lesbian relationship.?

The girls had sued, contending that California Lutheran High School had violated a state anti-discrimination law.

A lawyer for the girls said Tuesday that he would ask the California Supreme Court to overturn the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal. Lawyers on both sides of the case said it would protect private religious schools across California from such discrimination suits.

Full story on latimes.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).

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