EXCERPT:  San Diego Unified is still in the dark about whether it will have to repay millions of dollars in bond money it used to build field lights at several high schools across the district.
       A lawsuit over whether the district broke the law by not explicitly disclosing its plans to install stadium lights has volleyed back and forth between courts since 2011, when a group of upset residents near Hoover High School first sued over the lights on that campus.
       The group, Taxpayers for Accountable School Bond Spending, argued that the lights at Hoover High and several other schools weren't on the project list sent to voters who passed Proposition S, a $2.1 billion school bond, in 2008. The group also argued the district violated state environmental laws by not sufficiently studying the project's impact on parking and traffic.
      The district initially won the case, but an appellate court overruled San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor, and agreed with the residents group in March 2013 that the field light cost and the environmental review that cleared the way for the project didn't pass muster. ...