David Gamage Comments on $9.4 Million Judgment Against San Juan

The Orange County Register, September 28, 2010 by Vik Jolly
http://www.ocregister.com/news/city-268495-cities-insurance.html

San Juan, which has a roughly $22 million general fund budget, would be hard pressed in these economic times to raise revenue, said David Gamage, assistant professor of law at UC Berkeley. “Raising additional revenues is never easy in California,” he said. “Most cities already have troubling budget situations and revenues already have gone down,” Gamage said. “For many cities, the spending obligations have gone up.”