United States Ninth Circuit

In an action by a police union claiming that a city ordinance that reduced the city's contributions to the employees' retirement fund violated Plaintiff's constitutional right to an actuarially sound pension system, summary judgment for Defendants is affirmed where res judicata barred Plaintiff's claims due to a settlement in a prior state lawsuit.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/23/2008
• Decided 06/10/2009
• Published 06/10/2009

Judges

• SHADUR, Senior District Judge:, Before:  CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and MILTON I. SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher D. Nissen, Susan M. Wilson and M. Alim Malik, Law Offices of Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus, Petersen & Peckenpaugh, Irvine, CA, for San Diego Police Officers' Association, plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee., Peter H. Benzian and Colleen C. Smith, Law Offices of Latham & Watkins LLP, San Diego, CA, for City of San Diego, Scott Peters, Jim Madaffer, Ralph Inzunza, Toni Atkins, Tony Young, Brian Maienschein, Donna Frye, Michael Zucchet, Cathy Lexin, Mary Vattimo, Terri Webster, Ed Ryan, P. Lamont Ewell, Michael Uberuaga and Bruce Herring, defendants-appellees/cross-appellants., Matthew M. Mahoney, Law Offices of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, San Diego, CA, for San Diego City Employees' Retirement System, defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.