Brown v. Chiang, 198 Cal. App. 4th 1203; Cal. 3d App. Dist. 2011)

A state budget crisis led the Governor of California to issue an Executive Order directing the state Department of Personnel Administration to implement a furlough of employees of the state Constitutional officers, including the Attorney General. The trial court held that the order did apply to the Constitutional officers and the officers appealed, asserting, among…

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