Kistler v. Redwoods Community College Dist

In Kistler v. Redwoods Community College Dist. (1993) 15 Cal.App.4th 1326, the court approved the result in Forrest while rejecting "the broad dicta contained therein." ( Id. at p. 1336.) Kistler noted that the employee in Forrest had been entitled to a grievance hearing, but the university erroneously refused to convene the hearing. "Since an administrative hearing would have been held, for the protection of the employee and at his request, if not for the illegal act of the state university, section 800 could apply in Forrest despite the fact that, technically, no administrative hearing had taken place." (Ibid.)