Scott Peters, Lawyer

March 31, 2008 9:58 AM

By Will Carless

VoiceOfSanDiego.org

Before he was a city councilman, before the pension debacle, the La Jolla seals and the Soledad Cross threw him into the public spotlight, Scott Peters was a lieutenant in the Great Trash Wars of the early- and mid-1990s.

 

 

As a deputy county counsel, Peters represented the county Board of Supervisors for much of the decade in a thicket of lawsuits over local trash collection, landfill fees and expansion of the county's landfill sites. In the course of the trash wars, he gained a reputation among those who fought with him and against him as a smart, tenacious lawyer, who set realistic goals and almost always delivered for his client...


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