Erzinger

Plaintiffs Susan Erzinger et al., appeal a judgment favoring the Regents of the University of California (University) on the plaintiffs’ third amended complaint.

The plaintiffs’ third amended complaint alleges: Plaintiffs are students at the University; the University collects a registration fee from all students; the registration fee is used to provide health services to students at facilities on and off campus; such health services include abortion counseling, abortion referral and abortion; plaintiffs have refused to pay the portion of their registration fees used to pay for abortion counseling, abortion referral and abortion; plaintiffs have offered to pay all of the required fees except such amounts paid for abortion counseling, abortion referral and abortions; the University has not accepted partial payments of the required registration fees; the University has violated plaintiffs’ rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and article I, section 4, and article IX, section 9 of the California Constitution by cancelling plaintiffs’ enrollments at the University; the University’s collecting from plaintiffs fees used to pay for…