
2 Catharine Miller owns and operates Tastries through a company called Cathy’s Creations, Inc. Tastries maintained it could not be 1 All further statutory references are to the Government Code, unless otherwise indicated. In this case, the underlying section 12974 civil action was initiated by the DFEH in December 2017 by a petition seeking provisional relief to temporarily enjoin Tastries and Catharine Miller from refusing to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples.2 The petition for relief was based on an administrative complaint filed with the DFEH by Eileen and Mireya Rodriquez-Del Rio, who alleged Tastries had refused to sell them a wedding cake based on their sexual orientation. After completing its investigation of the complaint, the DFEH may elect to file suit under section 12965 for permanent relief on the claims stemming from the administrative complaint.

County of Imperial (1983) 35 Cal.3d 63, 69–70.) The provisional relief granted under section 12974 is of limited duration, lasting only until final disposition of the administrative complaint.

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Indeed, any order for provisional relief granted under section 12974 is to be “issued in accordance with Section 527 of the Code of Civil Procedure.” (§ 12974.) To determine whether such provisional relief should issue, courts consider the likelihood the plaintiff will prevail on the merits at trial, and the comparative interim harm the parties are likely to suffer if the relief is either denied or granted.
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ooOoo- INTRODUCTION This writ presents a question whether the trial court improperly construed the effect of an entry of judgment in an action filed by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) under Government Code section 12974.1 Section 12974 permits the DFEH, during the course of its investigation of an administrative complaint, to seek a limited court order for provisional relief only, much like the provisional relief that may be sought under Code of Civil Procedure section 527. Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, Charles S. Newman, Assistant Attorney General, Satoshi Yanai, Cherokee DM Melton and Katherine Lehe, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Michael L. OPINION THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KERN COUNTY, Respondent CATHY’S CREATIONS, INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest. The court finally held that the trial court's incorrect construction of its preliminary injunction order as a final, merits-based determination of the DFEH's UCRA claim in its order on the motion to enforce the judgment led the trial court to circumscribe DFEH's statutory duties in a manner that violated the separation of powers doctrine.įiled 9/9/20 CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING, Petitioner, F078245 (Super.
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Furthermore, regardless of the procedural context of the preliminary injunction request, the court held that the trial court's decision on it could not constitute a merits-based adjudication of the UCRA claim: the trial court's order related to an issue of law that was decided with reference to extrinsic factual evidence that had not been fully investigated at the administrative level or fully pleaded in a claim for permanent relief. The Court of Appeal granted DFEH's petition for writ of mandate, holding that the trial court's interpretation of a section 12974 civil action as the equivalent of a section 12965 action was incorrect, and its order on the preliminary injunction requested under section 12974 was not a merits-based determination of the merits of the DFEH's Unruh Civil Rights Act (UCRA) claim to be presented in a civil action under section 12965. The trial court denied DFEH's requests for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction. The underlying Government Code section 12974 civil action was initiated by DFEH in December 2017 by a petition seeking provisional relief to temporarily enjoin Tastries from refusing to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples.
