Legal Opinion
Professional Engineers in California Government v. State Personnel Board
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 11, 2001No. C028402PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MORRISON, J.
In this case we decide that the Career Executive Assignment (CEA) program does not violate the civil service mandate of the California Constitution. However, the implementing regulations that allow selection and transfer of applicants without ranking them violate statutes implementing the constitutional requirement of a “system based on merit ascertained by competitive examination.” As we recently held in Alexander v. State Personnel Bd. (2000) 80 Cal.App.4th 526, 542 [95 Cal.Rptr.2d 324] (Alexander), competition denotes a rivalry: “It encompasses a comparison of relative…
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