James v. Clackamas County

Clackamas County and the individually named defendants, Clackamas County commissioners during the relevant time period, appeal from a limited judgment declaring that they breached contractual and statutory duties to plaintiff, a retired management-level employee of the Clackamas County sheriffs office, by reducing his retiree medical benefits. The parties agree that defendants’ obligation to maintain plaintiffs benefits (and the benefits of other sheriffs office retirees) lasted only as long as the fund created for that purpose was sufficient to do so. Plaintiff maintains that such a fund…