PITTS v. PERLUSS

Docket No. Sac. 7410.

58 Cal.2d 824 (1962)

377 P.2d 83

27 Cal. Rptr. 19

THOS. L. PITTS, Petitioner, v. IRVING H. PERLUSS, as Director of the Department of Employment, Respondent; CALIFORNIA-WESTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Scully for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Walter J. Wiesner, Deputy Attorney General, Maurice P. McCaffrey and Charles M. Root for Respondent.

Howard L. Jeske, Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer, Allan, Miller, Groezinger, Keesling & Martin, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro and John F. Downey for Real Parties in Interest.


TOBRINER, J.

We apply to the resolution of the complex matter of this case relatively simple rules. We undertake a lengthy examination of the history, as well as the content, of the attacked regulation of the Director of the Department of Employment to show that he did not violate the precept that he must not act arbitrarily, capriciously or without evidentiary support. We explain, too, why the director properly applied the regulation to existing plans of disability...

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