Last week, California Association of Professional Scientists and Professional Engineers in California Government filed their response to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's petition to the state Supreme Court to consolidate and take up seven furlough cases or move them into Sacramento's 3rd District Court of Appeal.
The unions like parts of the governor's proposal and dislike other parts, as they explain on PDF page 9:
PECG and CAPS support the Governor's request to transfer six of these cases -- the three consolidated in the Third District Court of Appeal and the three First District Court of Appeal cases -- because those cases raise issues of great importance that should be resolved promptly and warrant this Court's assumption of jurisdiction ...
Should this court decline to transfer the pending appeals to itself ... it should decline the Governor's request to consolidate the cases in the Third District Court of Appeal.
Click here to open the CAPS/PECG brief. We've also written a bit about the opposition brief filed by California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment. Click here to read more about that. The governor's Mar. 2 petition to the high court is here.
Also, we've updated our Furlough Fights spreadsheet. Click here to see info about all the furlough lawsuits launched since Schwarzenegger mandated the policy in late 2008.
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