Legal Opinion
McClead v. Pima County
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided August 27, 1992No. 1 CA-CV 90-477PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McGREGOR, Judge.
This action requires us to determine whether increases in state employee retirement benefits that are authorized after the benefiting employees have retired violate the extra compensation and gift clauses of the Arizona Constitution or impair the obligations of contract of other vested members of the retirement plans. Because the challenged benefits were not paid from funds belonging to the state, we find no unconstitutional extra compensation. In addition, because the expenditures served a public purpose and did not endanger the retirement plans’ financial stability,…
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