Add to ORKGThe recent spate of high profile efforts by state governors to roll back public employee pension rights in light of recent budgetary challenges has shone the light directly on the importance to public employees of the Contracts Clause provisions of the federal and state constitutions. Using as an example the controversial budget repair bill in Wisconsin and the application of the bill’s pension provisions to Milwaukee City employee pension rights, this article has sought to show how, under certain specified circumstances, such legislative attempts may be constitutionally impermissible if such laws substantially impair employee contracts with the state without the necessary legal justification. Although such Contracts Clause litigation might...
In its recent Harris v. Quinn opinion the U.S. Supreme Court (in particular Justice Alito) seemed to...
Collective bargaining by public sector employees has been the subject of recent heated debates in th...
This paper extends analysis of the intersection between economic and geographical restructuring, uni...
The recent spate of high profile efforts by state governors to roll back public employee pension rig...
Unfunded employee pension obligations will present a serious fiscal problem to state and local gover...
In Spiller v. State, a divided Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, held that cer...
As public sector budgets have waxed and waned in response to changes in the economic cycle over the ...
This Article reviews not only the Pension Clause’s language and origins, but also the constitutional...
Public employees in Ohio are now statutorily entitled to bargain collectively with their government ...
During cycles of public sector budgetary crises, governmental entities frequently undertake efforts ...
What rights do public employees have to the same level of pension benefits when their positions are ...
In two recent cases, the Supreme Court of the United States held that state legislation had impaired...
(Excerpt) This Note argues that, despite its notorious reputation as the case that permitted and enc...
A fundamental principle of law is that courts stand by their decisions. Under the principle of stare...
While the United States Constitution has attracted considerable attention at an international level,...
In its recent Harris v. Quinn opinion the U.S. Supreme Court (in particular Justice Alito) seemed to...
Collective bargaining by public sector employees has been the subject of recent heated debates in th...
This paper extends analysis of the intersection between economic and geographical restructuring, uni...
The recent spate of high profile efforts by state governors to roll back public employee pension rig...
Unfunded employee pension obligations will present a serious fiscal problem to state and local gover...
In Spiller v. State, a divided Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, held that cer...
As public sector budgets have waxed and waned in response to changes in the economic cycle over the ...
This Article reviews not only the Pension Clause’s language and origins, but also the constitutional...
Public employees in Ohio are now statutorily entitled to bargain collectively with their government ...
During cycles of public sector budgetary crises, governmental entities frequently undertake efforts ...
What rights do public employees have to the same level of pension benefits when their positions are ...
In two recent cases, the Supreme Court of the United States held that state legislation had impaired...
(Excerpt) This Note argues that, despite its notorious reputation as the case that permitted and enc...
A fundamental principle of law is that courts stand by their decisions. Under the principle of stare...
While the United States Constitution has attracted considerable attention at an international level,...
In its recent Harris v. Quinn opinion the U.S. Supreme Court (in particular Justice Alito) seemed to...
Collective bargaining by public sector employees has been the subject of recent heated debates in th...
This paper extends analysis of the intersection between economic and geographical restructuring, uni...
