P. ex rel. San Diego Municipal etc. v. City of San
This is the latest chapter in a decade-old saga concerning the validity of the Citizens’ Pension Reform Initiative (hereafter, the Initiative), a voter-approved measure that eliminated defined-pension benefits for most new City of San Diego employees and replaced them with defined-contribution 401(k)-style plans. In a prior case, the Supreme Court concluded San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders violated the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (the Act; Gov. Code, § 3500 et seq.) by sponsoring the Initiative and failing to meet and confer with the unions that represent city employees affected by the Initiative. (Boling v. Public Employment Relations Bd. (2018) 5 Cal.5th 898 (Boling I).)
In this quo warranto proceeding, the city employee unions (hereafter, the Unions) sued the city and its city council (together, the City) to invalidate the Initiative based on Sanders’s violation of the Act.
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