| Court: | CA Supreme Court |
| Facts: | There's a fire at a SFHA building, and five people (four kids) die. |
| Posture: | Jury finds SHFA liable for the deaths, awards $12M. Later there's some settling and insurance. But still, the plaintiffs didn't get paid. So they file a suit and SFHA says they don't have that kind of money. And they don't plan to negotiate. |
| Issue: | Should they have to pay? |
| Holding: | Yes. |
| Rule: | CA law expressly requires public entities to pay the full amount of any judgment. |
| Reasoning: | Nothing in the rules says they can't spend their HUD money on this. Or their city funds. Or they can raise money themselves by issuing bonds. |
| Dicta: | |