Blaser

*353 California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is the state agency responsible for managing contributions made by employees and member school districts to the State Teachers' Retirement *354 Fund. (See Ed. Code, § 22000 et seq. ) 1 In March 2014, William Baxter and 10 other retired teachers (the Baxter petitioners) formerly employed by the Salinas Unified High School District (District) filed a petition for a peremptory writ of administrative mandamus, naming CalSTRS as respondent and the District as real party in interest. (See Baxter v. State Teachers' Retirement System (2017) 18 Cal.App.5th 340 , 351, 227 Cal.Rptr.3d 37 ( Baxter ).) The Baxter petitioners sought relief to prevent CalSTRS from continuing to reduce their monthly retirement benefit payments and to restore prior monies they claimed CalSTRS had wrongfully withheld. ( Ibid. ) CalSTRS made the deductions to recoup overpayments that had been made to the Baxter petitioners as a result of a years-long miscalculation by the District of their monthly retirement benefits. ( Id. at p. 347, 227 Cal.Rptr.3d 37 .) The trial court held that the three-year statute of limitations (§ 22008, subd. (a)) barred CalSTRS…