United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on plaintiffs-employees' constitutional Contract Clause challenge to legislation amending the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) is affirmed where the employees' PERS contract does not contain the promises urged by them, and thus, the challenged legislation did not impair a term of the PERS contract for purposes of being a violation of the federal Contract Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/24/2006
• Published 10/24/2006

Judges

• RHOADES, District Judge:, Before: SILVERMAN and GOULD, Circuit Judges, and RHOADES, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory A. Hartman, Bennett, Hartman, Morris & Kaplan, Portland, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremy D. Sacks, Stoel Rives, Portland, OR, for the defendants-appellees.