MITCHELL v. STATE PERSONNEL BD.

Docket No. 17517.

90 Cal.App.3d 808 (1979)

153 Cal. Rptr. 552

MONTY S. MITCHELL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. STATE PERSONNEL BOARD, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Turner & Sullivan and Robert J. Sullivan for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Loren E. McMaster as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger and George Deukmejian, Attorneys General, and M. Anthony Soares, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Appellant.


OPINION

EVANS, J.

Plaintiff, Monty S. Mitchell, was employed as a psychiatric technician at Porterville State Hospital. His duties included the care of a severely retarded paraplegic male patient. On the morning of August 16, 1976, plaintiff removed the patient from his bed and replaced his urine-soiled sheets. The patient was returned to the bed, dressed, and lifted from the bed to be placed in a wheelchair; at that time and while...

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