L. Richard Runyon, Plaintiff and Appellant v. Board of Trustees of the California State University…

Summary

The court held that a California State University employee who filed an internal whistleblower-retaliation complaint may bring a statutory damages action after CSU reaches an adverse decision, because the complaint was not satisfactorily addressed from the complainant's perspective. The employee need not first obtain a writ of mandate overturning CSU's decision. The court reversed the Court of Appeal's judgment and disapproved the contrary rule to the extent it required judicial exhaustion.