Collins v. Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Annuity & Benefit Fund

Plaintiffs, Fred Collins and Michael Spencer, brought a complaint individually and on behalf of a similarly situated class of plaintiffs composed of fire paramedics for the City of Chicago (the fire paramedics). They sought a declaration, in the circuit court of Cook County, that section 6 — 210.1 of article 6 of the Illinois Pension Code (40 ILCS 5/6 — 210.1 (West 1992)) (the Code), which pertains to the “Firemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund — Cities over 500,000” (Firemen’s Fund), unconstitutionally diminished fire paramedics’ vested pension rights in violation of section 5 of article XIII of…