Legal Opinion
Kreeft v. City of Oakland
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 30, 1998No. A079920PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PARRILLI, J.
Plaintiffs are certified class representatives of firefighters who have retired under the Oakland Police and Fire Retirement System (retirees). Under the Oakland Police and Fire Retirement System (Fire Retirement System), a retiree’s pension is a fixed percentage of the current compensation “attach[ed] to the . . . rank” the retiree held upon retirement. Thus, as the salaries of active firefighters increase, so do the pensions Oakland (City) pays to its retired firefighters. This is a so-called “fluctuating” pension system.1
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit AuthoritySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Kern v. City of Long BeachCalifornia Supreme Court · 1947
- Allen v. City of Long BeachCalifornia Supreme Court · 1955
- Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs' Ass'n v. Board of RetirementCalifornia Supreme Court · 1997
- Domar Electric, Inc. v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1994
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- City of Oakland v. Oakland Police & Fire Retirement SystemCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2014
- KLAJIC v. Castaic Lake Water AgencyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2001
- Indep. Living Ctr. of S. Cal. v. Jennifer KentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2018
- City of Oakland v. Police, California Court of Appeal, 5th District2018
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