Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency v. McGrath

Opinion

RUSHING, P. J.

Plaintiff Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (the Agency) brought this action to recover certain charges alleged to be owed by defendant William J. McGrath. McGrath defended the action on the ground, among others, that the enactment under which the Agency assessed the charges was unconstitutional. The Agency brought a motion for summary judgment and summary adjudication, contending among other things that McGrath’s constitutional challenge was barred by a prior judgment in which the issue of the validity of the charges had been determined adversely to him. McGrath…