Rui One Corp. v. City of Berkeley

Laws that work an “impairment of a State’s own contracts ... face more stringent examination under the Contract *1158Clause than [do] laws regulating contractual relationships between private parties .... ” Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus, 438 U.S. 234, 244 n. 15, 98 S.Ct. 2716, 57 L.Ed.2d 727 (1978). There is a good reason for this. Parties enter into contracts to “order their personal and business affairs according to their particular needs and interests. Once arranged, those rights and obligations are binding under the law, and the parties are entitled to rely on them.” Id. at 245, 98…