California Court of Appeal

In an employment termination action, trial court judgment is affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part where: 1) the trial court properly ruled plaintiff was entitled to an memorandum of understanding appeal hearing on her employment termination, as plaintiff was terminated for cause and defendant's application for involuntary disability retirement is a separate and distinct employment action; and 2) trial court erred in denying plaintiff's action seeking relief under the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act as plaintiff's employment termination was per se punitive and therefore POBRA applied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2009
• Published 05/18/2009

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jackson Lewis,Edward P. Zappia and Susan E. Groff, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants County of Riverside et al., Law Offices of Dennis J. Hayes, Dennis J. Hayes, San Diego, and Jon D. Dwyer, for Defendants and Appellants Riverside Sheriffs' Association et al.