Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson

Marina Point (plaintiff) adopted a policy barring any new children as tenants (while allowing existing tenants' children to stay), and after the Wolfsons' (defendants) son Adam was born and they renewed their lease without disclosing his birth, Marina Point refused to renew again and sought to evict them; the Wolfsons argued the exclusionary policy violated California's Unruh Civil Rights Act. Marina Point justified the policy based on general, anecdotal concerns about disruptive children and increased maintenance costs, but presented no evidence Adam himself had ever been disruptive; the trial court held children weren't a protected class under existing statute or case law.