Legal Opinion
Puckett v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 15, 2016No. 15-6097PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLAY, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which DAUGHTREY and STRANCH, JJ., joined. STRANCH, J. (pp. 611-12), delivered a separate concurring opinion in which DAUGHTREY, J., joined.
OPINION
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs in this case are retired public employees who contend they have a contract with the State of Kentucky entitling them to have their base pension benefit annually adjusted by the specific cost of living adjustment (“COLA”) formula in existence at the time they retired. Plaintiffs brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a number of individual state officers, the…
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