National Ass'n of Government Employees v. Commonwealth

The plaintiffs, the National Association of Government Employees (“NAGE”), several officials of NAGE and two employees of the Commonwealth (collectively “NAGE”), brought this action against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“the Commonwealth”), and several state officials, challenging a statutory provision in the Commonwealth’s 1994 fiscal year budget which provides that the Commonwealth’s share of the group health insurance premiums for active state employees will be eighty-five percent, and which therefore increases state employees’ contributions to their health insurance premiums from ten…