Gulbransen v. Dept. of General Services CA3
Plaintiff Christian Gulbransen is a person with developmental disabilities and autism who has received services from Real Party in Interest Far Northern Regional Center (FNRC) since 1995. FNRC is a nonprofit corporation established pursuant to the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, Welfare & Institutions Code section 4500 et seq., to “provide fixed points of contact in the community for persons with developmental disabilities and their families.” (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 4620, subd. (a).) Gulbransen, through his father as guardian ad litem, filed a petition for peremptory writ of administrative mandate to modify and/or enforce a series of administrative decisions about the services provided to him by FNRC. (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5) The challenged decisions were issued by defendant Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) of the California Department of General Services, but, as an impartial quasi-judicial tribunal, it was not a participant in the writ proceedi
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