"The case goes back to the Golden State's budget crisis in 2013, when lawmakers passed a law that raised the retirement age to 62 for its state workers' pension plan CalPERS... The union said the change violated the Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution by retroactively impairing the union's contract rights and sued CalPERS, Gov. Jerry Brown and other state administrators. In her ruling for summary judgment in favor of the state, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman found the change to the contract was legal." [Local 101 AFSCME v. Brown, No. 14-5640 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 16, 2017)]  MORE >>