Supreme Court of California

A dismissed government employee is not precluded under the Tort Claims Act from asserting, in a wrongful termination suit, theories of illegal motivation that were not specified in the required notice of claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2004
• Published 11/01/2004

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Horvitz & Levy, Peter Abrahams, Sandra J. Smith, Nina E. Scholtz, Encino;  Matheny, Sears, Linkert & Long, Michael Bishop and Mary E. Wood, Sacramento, for Defendant and Appellant., Eisen & Johnston, Jay-Allen Eisen, Marian M. Johnston, Sacramento, Frederic L. Snowden;  Wilcoxen, Callahan, Montgomery & Deacon, Callahan & Deacon, Gary B. Callahan, Sacramento, and Ted Deacon, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.