California Court of Appeal

Trial court's judgment in favor of plaintiff granting his petition for writ of mandate compelling the Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System (LACERS) to approve his request for concurrent deferred retirement benefits with LACERS and the Judicial Retirement System (JRS), is reversed and remanded where: 1) there is no reciprocity between LACERS and JRS/JRS II, such that plaintiff, a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County who had worked for the City of Los Angeles as a City Attorney, may retire from LACERS at his higher judicial salary; and 2) provisions relating to the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) do not control the court's analysis.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2010
• Published 08/03/2010

Judges

• JOHNSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carmen A. Trutanich, Saskia T. Asamura