Litigation
Dec. 22, 2012
Boy Scouts win discrimination lawsuit
The Boy Scouts of America prevailed in a long-running legal dispute over whether a city could give land use rights to a religious organization whose policies explicitly exclude homosexuals, agnostics and atheists.
By Hadley Robinson
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The Boy Scouts of America prevailed in a long-running dispute over whether a city could give land use rights to a religious organization whose policies explicitly exclude homosexuals, agnostics and atheists under California and federal law.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's summary judgment for plaintiffs Thursday, saying the city of San Diego was only giving indirect...
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