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Decision helps with Rocky's revival

By Richard Binder

L.A. County Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney ruled this week that former Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick lacked legal authority to conduct performance audits of programs managed by City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo, ending a yearlong power struggle.

Mooney found that the City Charter did not grant Chick the power to evaluate Delgadillo's handling of workers' compensation issues.

Delgadillo praised the ruling, but Chick said she was "very upset" with the ruling and warned that it would prevent her successor, City Controller-elect Wendy Greuel, from conducting performance audits of not just the city attorney but also of a handful of non-elected officials, including the city clerk and city treasurer.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).