We’re posting this Complaint, not because it raises any new or novel issue, but because one of the plaintiff/property owners is San Francisco 49ers legend Joe Montana, who is suing San Francisco, alleging that the city’s maintenance of its stormwater/wastewater system (yes, the systems are one and the same) caused sewage to flood their Marina district homes.
Read the story here from SF Gate (“49ers legend Joe Montana sues San Francisco alleging ‘toxic fecal’ matter in home“).
We’re going to dust off the California Supreme Court’s latest ruling on inverse condemnation liability for flooding, since we haven’t looked at the doctrine in-depth in a while.