Brown is first rate, on all issues.
Cheers,
Richard F.
http://www.losangelesmission.com/ed/articles/1998/1098kb2.htm
"Soon after this decision in favor of parental consent, two of the four justices who voted on the pro-life side retired. Governor Wilson replaced them with Justices Ming Chin and Janice Rogers. Less than two months after the decision on parental consent, on May 22, the newly constituted California Supreme Court voted to rehear American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren.
On August 5, 1997, the court voted, 4-3, to overturn the previous court's April 4 decision, and declared the state parental consent law unconstitutional. In the majority were Chief Justice Ron George, and Justices Kathryn Werdegar, Ming Chin, and Joyce Kennard; in the minority were Justices Stanley Mosk, Marvin Baxter and Janice Brown. Chief Justice George wrote in an opinion shared by Justices Werdegar and Chin that the parental consent law could not pass the strict scrutiny required by 'the state constitutional privacy clause,' and so parental consent 'intrudes significantly on a privacy interest that past California decisions have identified as 'clearly among the most intimate and fundamental of all constitutional rights' (quoting Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights v. Myers, a 1981 abortion funding case.) Justice Janice Brown wrote that for the majority to have reached their conclusion, they must have ignored 'the historic limits of the federal Constitution,' have rewritten 'the privacy provision of the state Constitution,' and have abrogated 'the constitutional interests of parents in an opinion that cannot survive any level of scrutiny, much less strict scrutiny.'"