After Sacramento officials forged a $325 million deal to help build a stadium for the Sacramento Kings and keep the team from moving to Seattle, they turned to McIntosh to defend it in court.
A group of people unhappy with the deal sued the city alleging it had violated state bond law and constituted taxpayer fraud and illegal expenditure of public funds.
The deal the city struck with the basketball team meant it had to issue tranches of bonds by specific dates, presenting a huge challenge for McIntosh, who recently left Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson PLC to become a deputy city attorney for the city of Long Beach.
"It was really really important to the city that we conclude the case ... so that we could go to the bond market," McIntosh said. "We had to basically develop a strategy that would get the case resolved within a year."
And she did - when hit with huge discovery requests, they didn't fight it and provided documents on a rolling basis so that their opponent could start reviews promptly. They had a heavy motions practice to keep the case moving and finally got a decision a matter of weeks before the city had to issue bonds.
The court ruled completely in the city's favor and after the city agreed to waive costs, the plaintiffs agreed not to appeal.
McIntosh also waged a successful battle on behalf of the city of Los Angeles recently - successfully defending a new ordinance cut back on trinket sellers on the Venice boardwalk and set aside dedicated space for artists and musicians.
Most recently, McIntosh has been helping lead a successful effort by Los Angeles County to get Southern California Gas Co. to make accommodations to people displaced by the Aliso Canyon gas leak.
- Fiona Smith
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