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California Supreme Court· 5/20/1993

Johnson v. Calvert

Citations

  • 851 P.2d 776
  • 5 Cal. 4th 84
  • 19 Cal. Rptr. 2d 494
  • 93 Daily Journal DAR 6409
  • 93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3739
  • 1993 Cal. LEXIS 2474

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting various stereotypes surrounding gestational surrogacy in determining that husband and wife were the “natural parents” of a child born after the woman’s egg was implanted in a surrogate
  • “Yet for any child California law recognizes only one natural mother, despite advances in reproductive technology rendering a different outcome biologically possible.”
  • statutorily-authorized gestational carrier agreement disclaimer/waiver of parental rights/claims not violative of public policy or federal constitutional equal protection, substantive due process, or implied privacy rights of nonparent surrogate gestational carrier
  • statutorily-authorized gestational carrier agreement disclaimer/waiver of parental rights/claims not violative of public policy or federal constitutional equal protection, substantive due process, or implied privacy rights of nonparent surrogate gestational carrier
  • “[w]e are all too aware that the proper forum for resolution of this issue is the legislature, where empirical data, largely lacking from this record, can be studied and rules of general applicability developed.”

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Judges: Panelli, Arabian, Kennard

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