Wilmot demonstrates that the analytical framework provided by the Supreme Court has applications far beyond the “pension spiking” addressed in that case, and potentially provides a basis to uphold other types of pension reform directed at system loopholes or abuses.
RPLG Founding Partner Jon Holtzman and RPPG Managing Director of Government Affairs Dane Hutchings will present on pensions at the League of California Cities’ Municipal Finance Institute on Friday, Dec. 11.
On July 30, 2020, the California Supreme Court limited the California Rule in a variety of helpful ways, but ultimately found that the case did not present an opportunity to “revisit” the California Rule itself. We could be waiting a long time for a case that brings further clarity about the continuing vitality and scope of the California Rule.
On July 30, 2020, the California Supreme Court gave good government a win when it upheld the state law that outlawed forms of pension “spiking.”
You heard it here. Today, the California Supreme Court heard arguments in another highly anticipated vested rights case.
Will the Court once again decide the case on narrow grounds – finding no vested right to a host of “spiking” practices outlawed by PEPRA – or will the Court reach the broader question of when pensions can be modified? Stay tuned.
