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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 600', '§ 54', '§ 39839', '§ 30850', '§ 121680', '§ 21963', '§ 365', '§ 600', '§ 54', '§ 39839', '§ 30850', '§ 121680', '§ 21963', '§ 365', 'art 2', '§ 54', '§ 54', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 12', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 5', '§ 4', '§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 1', 'art 2', '§ 1', 'art 6', 'art 1', '§ 365', '§ 365', '§ 365', 'art 1', '§ 600', '§ 600']

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Citation: West’s Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 600.2, 600.5, West’s Ann. Cal. Civ. Code § 54 – 55.9; West’s Ann.Cal.Educ.Code § 39839; West’s Ann. Cal. Food & Agric. Code § 30850 – 30854; West’s Ann. Cal. Health & Safety Code § 121680; West’s Ann. Cal. Vehicle Code § 21963 ; West’s Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 365.5 – 365.7
Citation: CA PENAL § 600.2, 600.5; CA CIVIL § 54 – 55.9; CA EDUC § 39839; CA FOOD & AG § 30850- 30854; CA HLTH & S § 121680; CA VEHICLE § 21963; CA PENAL § 365.5 – 365.7
Civil Code. Division 1. Persons. Part 2.5. Blind and Other Physically Disabled Persons.
§ 54. Right to streets, highways, and other public places; disability
§ 54.1. Access to public conveyances, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and housing accommodations (below)
(a)(1) Individuals with disabilities shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to accommodations, advantages, facilities, medical facilities, including hospitals, clinics, and physicians’ offices, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motorbuses, streetcars, boats, or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation (whether private, public, franchised, licensed, contracted, or otherwise provided), telephone facilities, adoption agencies, private schools, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement, or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, or state or federal regulation, and applicable alike to all persons.
(3) “Full and equal access,” for purposes of this section in its application to transportation, means access that meets the standards of Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336) [FN1] and federal regulations adopted pursuant thereto, except that, if the laws of this state prescribe higher standards, it shall mean access that meets those higher standards.
(b)(1) Individuals with disabilities shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rent, lease, or compensation in this state, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law, or state or federal regulation, and applicable alike to all persons.
(3)(A) Any person renting, leasing, or otherwise providing real property for compensation shall not refuse to permit an individual with a disability, at that person’s expense, to make reasonable modifications of the existing rented premises if the modifications are necessary to afford the person full enjoyment of the premises. However, any modifications under this paragraph may be conditioned on the disabled tenant entering into an agreement to restore the interior of the premises to the condition existing prior to the modifications. No additional security may be required on account of an election to make modifications to the rented premises under this paragraph, but the lessor and tenant may negotiate, as part of the agreement to restore the premises, a provision requiring the disabled tenant to pay an amount into an escrow account, not to exceed a reasonable estimate of the cost of restoring the premises.
(6)(A) It shall be deemed a denial of equal access to housing accommodations within the meaning of this subdivision for any person, firm, or corporation to refuse to lease or rent housing accommodations to an individual who is blind or visually impaired on the basis that the individual uses the services of a guide dog, an individual who is deaf or hearing impaired on the basis that the individual uses the services of a signal dog, or to an individual with any other disability on the basis that the individual uses the services of a service dog, or to refuse to permit such an individual who is blind or visually impaired to keep a guide dog, an individual who is deaf or hearing impaired to keep a signal dog, or an individual with any other disability to keep a service dog on the premises.
(C)(i) As used in this subdivision, “guide dog” means any guide dog that was trained by a person licensed under Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 7200) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code or as defined in the regulations implementing Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336).
(Added by Stats.1968, c. 461, p. 1092, § 1. Amended by Stats.1969, c. 832, p. 1664, § 1; Stats.1972, c. 819, p. 1465, § 1; Stats.1974, c. 108, p. 223, § 1; Stats.1976, c. 971, p. 2269, § 1; Stats.1976, c. 972, p. 2272, § 1.5; Stats.1977, c. 700, p. 2256, § 1; Stats.1978, c. 380, p. 1128, § 12; Stats.1979, c. 293, p. 1092, § 1; Stats.1980, c. 773, § 1; Stats.1988, c. 1595, § 2; Stats.1992, c. 913 (A.B.1077), § 5; Stats.1993, c. 1149 (A.B.1419), § 4; Stats.1993, c. 1214 (A.B.551), § 1.5; Stats.1994, c. 1257 (S.B.1240), § 2; Stats.1996, c. 498 (S.B.1687), § 1.5.)
<Part 2.5 was added by Stats.1968, c. 461, p. 1092, § 1.>
Health and Safety Code. Division 105. Communicable Disease Prevention and Control. Part 6. Veterinary Public Health and Safety. Chapter 1. Rabies Control.
Vehicle Code. Division 11. Rules of the Road. Chapter 5. Pedestrians’ Rights and Duties.
Penal Code. Part 1. Of Crimes and Punishments. Title 9. Of Crimes Against the Person Involving Sexual Assault, and Crimes Against Public Decency and Good Morals. Chapter 12. Other Injuries to Persons.
§ 365.5. Blind, deaf or disabled persons; public conveyances or accommodations; penalties
§ 365.6. Interference, harassment or obstruction of guide, signal, or service dog user or mobility aid user or guide, signal, or service dog; definitions; offense; punishment
§ 365.7. Knowing and fraudulent representation as owner or trainer of guide, signal or service dog; penalty
Penal Code. Part 1. Of Crimes and Punishments. Title 14. Malicious Mischief
§ 600.2. Allowing dog to injure or kill guide, signal or service dog; punishment; restitution
§ 600.5. Intentional injury to, or death of, guide, signal or service dog; penalty; restitution
Examples of Supreme Court ADA Related Cases (not necessarily involving animals)
The Supreme Court upheld an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulation (interpreting the ADA) that allows an employer to discriminate against a worker because his disability on the job would pose a direct threat to the worker’s own health. The controversy was that the actual text of the ADA only mentions that an individual should not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others in the workplace.
An employee who was fired for drug use reapplied for employment once he was rehabilitated but his employer refused citing its policy of not rehiring anyone that was fired for violating work rules. The policy was declared to be a legitimate non-discriminatory reason under a disparate treatment claim. However, the policy’s disparate impact on persons with disabilities wasn’t reviewed by the Court since the plaintiff didn’t properly plead it.
Religious employer had a First Amendment right to fire its employee for threatening to pursue her legal options under the ADA. The Supreme Court agreed that there is a ministerial exception to employment discrimination laws which allows religious organizations to choose their ministers
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