Legal Opinion
Wilson v. City of Los Angeles
California Supreme Court
Decided May 4, 1960No. L. A. 25651PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
Virginia Wilson petitions for a writ of mandate, seeking to compel the Board of Civil Service Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles, its members and general manager, to vacate an administrative determination that the petitioner lacks qualifications for two civil service positions by reason of her prior discharge from employment by the county of Los Angeles after she had refused to subscribe to a loyalty oath in 1948.
The petitioner made application in 1958 and in 1959 to the Civil Service Commission of the City of Los Angeles for employment as “senior clerk” and as “medical investigator,”…
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