WELCH v. STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

No. C062517.

203 Cal.App.4th 1 (2012)

MELANIE WELCH, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

January 31, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melanie Welch, in pro. per., for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Douglas M. Press , Assistant Attorney General, Julie Weng-Gutierrez and Brenda A. Ray , Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

ROBIE, J.

In this case, we chronicle a schoolteacher's more than decade-long trip through a bureaucratic maze created by California's State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), which for years misinformed her and other applicants for disability retirement of the applicable eligibility requirements.

In October 1998, plaintiff Melanie Welch was attacked by a group of students while working as a teacher in Oakland. Following...

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