Supreme Court of California

In order to qualify for disability retirement under Government Code section 21156, plaintiff must show not only that he is incapacitated from performing his usual duties for his employer, but also that he is incapacitated from performing the usual duties of a patrol officer for other California law enforcement agencies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/01/2004
• Published 07/01/2004

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Grancell, Lebovitz, Stander, Marx and Barnes, Grancell, Lebovitz, Barnes and Reubens, Norin T. Grancell and Lawrence Kirk, for Defendant and Appellant., Lemarie, Faunce, Pingel & Singer, Law Office of Steven R. Pingel, Steven R. Pingel, Seal Beach;  Faunce, Singer & Oatman, Edward L. Faunce, Seal Beach, and Larry J. Roberts, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Peter H. Mixon, Carol McConnell and Richard B. Maness for California Public Employees Retirement Association, Sacramento, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.