Legal Opinion
Cornejo v. Lightbourne
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 22, 2013No. C070704PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BUTZ, J.
Plaintiff Ruby Cornejo filed this action for damages for violations of the California Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) (Gov. Code, § 8547 et seq.) 1 in May 2010. She alleged that as a result of her reports starting in 1999 about the practices and policies of the State Department of Social Services (the Department) being “ ‘improper governmental activity’ ” (§ 8547.2, subd. (c)), she experienced retaliation beginning in 2002. The Department 2 demurred on several grounds. The trial court agreed that plaintiff had failed to comply with the Government Claims Act (Claims Act) 3…
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