Jackson v. City of Sacramento

Opinion

REYNOSO, Acting P. J.

The trial court decreed that a peremptory writ of mandate issue commanding defendants to accept a prior Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision as binding upon the issue of industrial causation of injuries in a hearing before the Retirement Hearing Commission of the Sacramento City Employees’ Retirement System. We conclude that the trial court erred in finding that collateral estoppel (or res judicata) is applicable. We explain later that while the trial court spoke of res judicata it is collateral estoppel with which we deal. Plaintiff claims a mental…