Suzanne Stoker v. Milwaukee County

¶ 48. (dissenting.)

Rather than addressing the session laws which provide a clear answer to our inquiry and dictate protection of the employees' benefits, the majority shifts the focus of its analysis to language in the Milwaukee County General Ordinance. It is only by repeatedly ignoring the language of the governing session laws that the majority is able to conclude that the County may reduce the pension multiplier, thereby dealing a blow to the rights of the employees.

¶ 49. I conclude instead, as did a unanimous court of appeals, that the session laws mean what they say: employees have a…