California Court of Appeal

Under Education Code section 44977, which guarantees public school employees sick leave pay if they are unable to work due to a medical illness, a teacher may not receive a second paid statutory leave when the subsequent injury was known and potentially treatable during the original medical leave.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2005
• Published 03/07/2005

Judges

• PERLUSS, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers and Henry M. Willis, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Miller Brown & Dannis and Sue Ann Salmon Evans and Enrique M. Vassallo, Long Beach, for Defendants and Appellants.