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Discusses the implications of the lawsuit settlement between the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG). Terms of the settlement; Details on the case; Firms most affected by the settlement.

Reports on the involvement of Dennis J. Mulligan and Brian H. Maroney on the the replacement of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge project. Issue regarding the design of the bridge; Decision of Metropolitan Transportation Commission on the design; Involvement of Mulligan and Maroney with Caltrans.

Discusses a controversy in California over outsourcing, a practice that government employees are opposing. Hearing with transportation department officials on November 13, 1997; Showdown between Caltrans and the Professional Engineers in California Government union; Unconstitutionality of 1993 state law broadening Caltrans' contracting-out authority declared by state Supreme Court.

Reports that the California Department of Transportation has awarded a number of consulting contracts to seismically upgrade six toll bridges in the state. Professional Engineers in California Government's lawsuit against the agency in order to block its plan to lay off hundreds of engineers; Awardees of the contracts.