Pockman v. Leonard

This is an original proceeding in mandamus brought by an associate professor at San Francisco State College to compel respondents to certify his name on the public payroll and to pay him salary which was withheld because of his failure to execute the oath required by sections 3100-3109 of the Government Code, known commonly as the Levering Act. (Stats. 1951 [3d Ex. Sess. 1950, ch. 7], p. 15.)

The statute declares that all public employees are ‘‘ civil defense workers, subject to such civilian defense activities as may be assigned to them by their superiors or by law,” and it defines public…