10:15 a.m. editor's note: The broken link to the state Supreme Court filing has been fixed.
As this blog has reported, Wednesday is the deadline for state employee unions to file responses to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to move seven key furlough cases now in state appellate courts to the California Supreme Court and freezing action on about a dozen other cases still at the trial court level.
We've received several calls and e-mails asking which cases the governor is hoping the state's highest court will take. It's a bit confusing because 10 cases have gone to the appellate courts, but not all of them are part of Schwarzenegger's proposal.
Click here to download the governor's 53-page consolidation request to the court and scroll down to PDF page 10 for the list of cases. PDF page 9 contains a footnote about the other three cases and the governor's rationale for excluding them.
(Note: Last week the Schwarzenegger lost his appeal of California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment v. Schwarzenegger. It was the first time an appellate court had weighed in on a furlough matter. Click here for more about that ruling by the 1st District Court)
Clicking here downloads our Furlough Fights spreadsheet, with quick info and links to all the furlough litigation launched since the governor ordered furloughs in late 2008. We've updated the list to reflect last week's furlough lawsuit action and we've put the governor's hoped-for "Supreme Seven" in boldface type.
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