Lexin v. Superior Court

Opinion

WERDEGAR, J.

This case is a residuum of the fiscal crisis that swept the City of San Diego (City) over the last decade. That crisis, arising from the City’s failure to fund its employee retirement system adequately, led to federal investigations of the City’s bond disclosures, suspension of the City’s credit rating, class action lawsuits against the City for underfunding, the mayor’s resignation, and amendments of the City’s charter to change the composition of the board overseeing the retirement system.

The six defendants below, Cathy Lexin, Mary Elizabeth Vattimo, Teresa Aja Webster,…