Legal Opinion
Brown v. State Personnel Board
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 16, 1985No. Civ. 23481PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BLEASE, J.
Four years after discovery of allegations that associate professor Orie Brown made amorous overtures to two adult female students, officials of California State University at Sacramento (CSUS) filed charges of misconduct. They charged these acts (and three others), as “a series and pattern of sexual harassment of female students,” were cause for dismissal and Brown was fired. The two remote acts and one other occurring in 1979 were upheld as justifying dismissal by the State Personnel Board (board). Brown appeals from a judgment denying him relief by way of a writ of mandate…
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