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Imprudence Not Unconstitutional, Says Appeals Court
You're right if you sold my car I'd have to sue you and if I settled with you I'd be stuck with whatever I agreed to. But if I litigated it, the Court might award damages to me. In this case the city failed to follow it own rules and it got caught, refused to correct the immoral behavior and was sued. After it's lawyers evaluated the litigation, risk vs reward, they chose to enter into a binding legal settlement, which was supervised and approved by the courts. They certainly had the knowledge, authority and advice of counsel to enter into a legal settlement. Otherwise they would have litigated it and reached an end that way. Aguirre ran into the same problem in his attempts at litigation and Courts already ruled it was part of a legal settlement.— January 28, 2011 10:46 a.m.
Imprudence Not Unconstitutional, Says Appeals Court
First you say it there was no settlement, which I proved you wrong. Now you say the Court approved an illegal settlement. You're just full of ...err ahh answers. Problem is your answers are wrong most of the time. My original point is the OC case is a collective bargaining issue, San Diego is a legal settlement for acts or omission by the City and SDCERS. I know you hate that but it is a legal settlement agreed to voluntarily by all parties to action and approved by the court. Get over it.— January 27, 2011 6:53 p.m.
Imprudence Not Unconstitutional, Says Appeals Court
Wrong once again Puppy... The City of San Diego Resolutions adopted as part of the Corbett Litigation Settlement. You can either read the entire resolution or skip down to page 12 of 16. If you choose to read from the beginning where it says: "WHEREAS, the Board of Administration (“Retirement Board”) for the San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System (“SDCERS”), the Council for the City of San Diego (“City Council”), the City’s four labor unions and the Superior Court have approved the settlement of a class action suit brought by William J. Corbett ... regarding the calculation of retirement benefits (“Settlement”); Jump down to page 12. That's where you'll find effective 7/1/2000 safety members, as part of the CORBETT LEGAL SETTLEMENT received the choice of 3 at 50 effective July 1, 2002, or the old rate effective June 30, 2002, (2.5%) PLUS 10%. So you could calculate using 2.5% + 10% or 3.0% at age 50. Here is the link to Resolutions adopted as an Ordinance, the end result of a legal settlement. http://docs.sandiego.gov/council_reso_ordinance/r…— January 27, 2011 5:55 p.m.
Imprudence Not Unconstitutional, Says Appeals Court
Trial Court - Strike One Appellate Court - Strike Two The Cal Supreme Court - Priceless... oops that's A TV AD. No matter the result if they appeal it looks like the OCBOS will continue to waste the taxpayers money. With the only real winners, the lawyers. So far OC spent more than 2.26 million on this "theory" as of July 2010. Sadly the County Board refused to listen to four other powerful law firms who said they had no case. They've blindly followed Moorlach tilting at windmills. Here is another interesting fact. The fellow who came up with this theory, the one tossed out twice so far. Why it's Mario Mainero, the former chief of staff to OC Supervisor Moorlach. Mainero, left county employment in May to teach law school, he was hired back by the county to continue its fight. Talk about feathering your own nest! And here's the interesting part for San Diego. It has nothing to do with Public Safety here. The POA received 3% at 50 as part of a legal settlement to the Corbett litigation, whereas the OC Deputies negotiated for 3 at 50 as part of collective bargaining agreement.— January 27, 2011 4:20 p.m.
Congress Secretly Working on Way for States to Go Bankrupt
While it may be problems for OC...San Diego's labor agreement will not be affected. They were reached in different ways.— January 26, 2011 9:56 a.m.
What word do you want eliminated from the English language?
Isn't that interesting...."Moving Forward" is Fox News' new Logo while MSNBC is "Lean Forward".— January 25, 2011 7:46 a.m.
Goldsmith Appeals Suit He Ridiculed Aguirre for Filing
The silence from our supposedly apolitical city attorney is deafening. With DeMaio darting back and forth on local and national news, like a humming bird on speed, Goldsmith has been forced out of the limelight. While DeMaio pimps his Roadmap to ruin, Goldsmith has to try something, anything, to get media attention focused back on him. But you gotta wonder, is resurrecting some of his predecessor's dead litigation, a well reasoned move? Especially after just issuing his olive branch/Kumbaya sing-a-long to the unions a few days ago.— January 19, 2011 10:13 p.m.
California Superstorm Could Cause 5 Times the Damage of Major Quake
Oh I suppose it the same stuff, just regurgitated in endless Cable TV programming these days on the History Channel. Lots of programming time to fill and commercials to sell. http://www.history.com/shows/nostradamus-effect— January 19, 2011 8:53 a.m.
California Superstorm Could Cause 5 Times the Damage of Major Quake
Nostradamus, Mayan Calendars, 2012-a second Obama term and now Superstorms... all End-of-the-World tales, some scarier than others. San Diego's financial problems pale in comparison to ALL of these predictions.— January 18, 2011 8:32 p.m.
La Scala Closes
I think the first sentence ran on as long as La Scala's demise. Looking forward to the change. The "Village" is changing nicely with the addition of this new restaurant, LaPlaya Bistro, Jimmy's American Grill as well as the others within Liberty Station.— January 13, 2011 1:32 p.m.