California Science Center v. State Personnel Board

Opinion

JOHNSON, J.

Rudy Arellanes appeals the trial court’s grant of a petition for writ of mandate by the California Science Center (Center) seeking to reverse the decision of the State Personnel Board (SPB) overturning Arellanes’s termination. The trial court also denied Arellanes’s petition for writ of mandate seeking reinstatement. We conclude that the administrative law judge (ALT) and the SPB erred in excluding evidence of Arellanes’s termination by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD), and we affirm.

BACKGROUND

Arellanes submitted three examination and/or employment applications to…