Angry Marin County citizen

Marin pension critic pursues judicial review of benefits approval

A state appeals court has rejected a Mill Valley public pension critic’s bid for judicial review of pension payments, but left open the door for him to take his case to Marin Superior Court.

David Brown, a member of Citizens for Sustainable Pension Plans, filed a formal petition with the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, after a civil grand jury finding that Marin agencies repeatedly broke the law by approving benefits without public notice.

Brown asked the court to evaluate the situation in order to determine if the benefits were adopted illegally.

But in a ruling Friday, the court denied the petition “without prejudice to petitioner’s exhausting his remedies in the Superior Court.”

“We will definitely refile in Superior Court,” Brown said in an email Saturday. “I made a mistake and filed the petition at too high a level in the judicial system. This demonstrates the disadvantage at which ordinary citizens are forced to operate when they take on legal professionals in an attempt to right the wrongs the system has wrought.”

A violation  of the law in Marin County to sneak soke the pensions.  In this case there was prior agreement thay pensio n spiking is reviewed.

Is this a rights case or a contracts case? We do not even need Due Process, the Marin  County pension  spikers broke the law, says the evidence.  The citizen  can file a criminal law suit, make it class action   What can Jerry do?  Pass a other law that makes unions royalty?