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Religious Beliefs No Defense To Unruh Act Discrimination Claims.
A customer seeks a service from your company, but one of your employees refuses to serve the customer because of the customer’s sexual orientation. The employee claims that it is against his religious beliefs to provide the service. May the company lawfully deny the customer service? No.
Evidence Of Discriminatory Motive Sufficient To Raise Genuine Issue of Material Fact For “Reverse” Religious Discrimination Claim (scroll down).
In Noyes v. Kelly Services, the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants and found that there were genuine issues of triable fact as to pretext in the context of plaintiff Lynn Noyes’ claim of “reverse” religious discrimination.
Veganism Is Not Religious Creed Within Meeting Of The California Fair Employment And Housing Act.
In Friedman v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group (2002) Daily Journal D.A.R. 10633 (9/17/02) the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District held that veganism was not a religious creed within the meaning of the FEHA.
