SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeal court refused today to sort out the merits of a defunct deal to sell 11 state-owned buildings, agreeing with Gov. Jerry Brown that it’s a moot issue — for now, anyway.
Brown announced in February that he would drop the sale, a controversial proposal that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had initiated to patch a $1.2 billion budget hole. Even after the sale appeared dead, Burlingame firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy pressed forward in the litigation, concerned that the state might relent, if, for example, it was sued by the jilted buyer — which it was earlier this month.
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