Garvin v. Chambers

This is an appeal by the defendant, the civil service board of the city of Oakland, from a judgment of the superior court, in and for the county of Alameda, annulling upon certiorari an order of the defendant board finding the petitioner, a police officer, guilty of insubordination and sustaining an order of the commissioner of public health and safety dismissing him from the police department of the city of Oakland.

The charter of the city of Oakland provides that “All persons holding positions in the classified civil service shall be subject to suspension, fine and also to removal from…