Haworth v. Superior Court

RANDAL D. HAWORTH et al.,

Petitioners,

v.

THE SUPERIOR COURT

OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY,

Respondent;

SUSAN AMY OSSAKOW,

Real Party in Interest.

No. S165906

Ct.App. 2/5

No. B204354

Los Angeles County

Super. Ct. No. SC082441

California Supreme Court

Filed September 1, 2010

MODIFICATION OF OPINION

BY THE COURT:

The opinion herein filed on August 2, 2010, and appearing at 50 Cal.4th 372, is modified as follows: footnote 12 is deleted, and the second and third sentences of the first full paragraph on page 391 are revised to read as follows:  ?Although the Court of Appeal characterized Judge Gordon?s conduct as ?disparaging women on account of their physical attributes,? our opinion mentions only one incident involving a person?s appearance, in which he ?referred to a fellow jurist?s physical attributes in a demeaning manner,? and the opinion does not specify the gender of the jurist.  (In re Gordon, supra, 13 Cal.4th at p. 474.)  Even assuming the jurist was a woman, any number of speculative inferences might be made about Judge Gordon?s attitudes based upon that conduct.?