City of Emeryville v. Cohen

Opinion

DUARTE, J.

— The factual and legal setting of this case is complex, involving the Legislature’s decision to dissolve the many redevelopment agencies which became a fixture of local government financing over decades, and involving the way the moneys remaining in the redevelopment agency coffers around the state would be redistributed.

But the narrow dispute on appeal turns on the straightforward interpretation of a few statutes. As the trial court correctly reasoned, those statutes authorized plaintiffs City of Emeryville and Successor Agency to the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency…