Caveness v. State Personnel Board

Opinion

SPENCER, P. J.

Introduction

Appellant Mildred Caveness appeals from a judgment denying a petition for a peremptory writ of mandate to compel respondent State Personnel Board of the State of California (Board) to order respondent State of California Department of Motor Vehicles (Department) to reinstate appellant to her position as a program technician I with the Department and to award her back salary from the effective date of her dismissal.

Statement of Facts

Appellant has been a permanent civil service employee of the Department continuously since December 1964. On February 2, 1975,…