Supreme Court of California

In a dispute over whether a county employee, a detention specialist, was dismissed for disability within the meaning of Government Code section 31725, a court of appeals decision in the employee's favor is reversed where where the trial court ruled correctly that the employee was not dismissed from his job and that the protections of section 31725 were never triggered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/25/2006
• Published 05/25/2006

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas J. Tusan, Fresno, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kathleen Bales-Lange, County Counsel, Ron Rezac, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Crystal E. Sullivan, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents., Kathleen Bales-Lange, County Counsel (Tulare) and James G. Line, Deputy County Counsel, for Tulare County Employees' Retirement Association as Amicus Curie on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel (Los Angeles) and Stephen R. Morris, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for California State Association of Counties and the California League of Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.