Legal Opinion
City of La Grande v. Public Employes Retirement Board
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided October 25, 1978No. TC 22993, CA 5493, SC 25230; TC 29437, CA 6129, SC 25230PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*175LINDE, J.
In these cases the court sustained state laws mandating certain retirement and insurance benefits for police and firefighting personnel against claims that the laws unconstitutionally infringed on the cities’ powers of self-government. 281 Or 137, 576 P2d 1204 (1978). The Cities of La Grande and Astoria filed an extensive petition for rehearing, and we set the case down for reargument. We reaffirm the constitutionality of the challenged statutes.
First. The dispute involves the meaning of the "home rule” amendments added to the Oregon Constitution in 1906, which we repeat here to…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Carter v. Carter Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Kidd v. PearsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- United States v. E. C. Knight Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1895
- City of La Grande v. Public Employes Retirement BoardOregon Supreme Court · 1978
- Rose v. Port of PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1917
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- City of Roseburg v. Roseburg City Firefighters, Local No. 1489Oregon Supreme Court · 1981
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