California Court of Appeal

In a union's petition for a writ of mandate challenging a city's decision to unilaterally retract its promise to pay 50 percent of city employees' medical insurance premiums after retirement, trial court's order sustaining the city's demurrer and dismissal of the petition is reversed and remanded where. applying Retired Employees Assn. of Orange County, Inc. v. County of Orange, the trial court erred by sustaining the demurrer because the petition alleged that the MOUs ratified by the city council promised active employees that the city would pay 50 percent of their future retiree medical insurance premiums.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/02/2012
• Published 11/02/2012

Judges

• Nicholson

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel