SAN FRANCISCO — When an Oakland jury rejected former City Manager Deborah Edgerly’s wrongful termination suit in 40 minutes last year, her attorney was unbowed. Edgerly’s strongest claims — for retaliation — had been thrown out pretrial, and she intended to appeal. “The facts were much stronger and compelling that there was retaliation,” her attorney, John Houston Scott, said at the time.
But on Wednesday the First District Court of Appeal agreed with the city that Edgerly had not stated a claim for retaliation, dealing a likely death blow to her case.
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