South Pasadena mayor files lawsuit asking not to be fired

Embattled South Pasadena Mayor Dan Calabria is suing the city he works for as well as a fellow city commissioner and an independent lawyer who issued a scathing investigation of Calabria’s behavior as mayor. Calabria wants a judge to bar the city or City Commission from taking any further action to remove him from office. City commissioners, including Arthur Penny, who is named in the lawsuit, voted to table an effort to remove Calabria from office during a meeting in…