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PARRISH v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Docket No. S.F. 22429.

66 Cal.2d 260 (1967)

425 P.2d 223

57 Cal. Rptr. 623

BENNY MAX PARRISH, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 27, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert M. Bendich and Coleman A. Blease for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Robert H. Laws, Jr., B.V. Yturbide, Marshall W. Krause and Ruth Jacobs as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

J.F. Coakley, District Attorney, and Richard H. Klippert, Assistant District Attorney, for Defendant and Respondent.

TOBRINER, J.

In the present case an Alameda County social worker, discharged for "insubordination" for declining to participate in a mass morning raid upon the homes of the county's welfare recipients, seeks reinstatement with back pay on the ground that such participation would have involved him in multiple violations of rights secured by the federal and state Constitutions. He urges that his superiors could not properly direct him to participate in an illegal activity...

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