Booth v. Sims

NEELY, Chief Justice:

This mandamus proceeding presents the question whether certain 1994 amendments to our State’s public safety pension plan impair the obligations of contract under art. Ill, § 4 of the West Virginia Constitution. We granted a rule to show cause to set the law in clear and unambiguous terms concerning the pension rights of thousands of West Virginia public employees who have given their lives to government service and now rely for their future health, welfare and security upon the promises made to them by their fellow citizens through the elected legislature. For the reasons…