Kingston v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
6
states following
December 1987
most recently cited
1 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Dodge v. Board of Education · State Indiana Anderson v. Brand · Davis v. Gray · Taylor v. Beckham
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he new amendment does not impair any of their financial arrangements with the Commonwealth. Rather, it merely takes away their option of when to retire. It is this option to determine voluntarily when to retire, when to cease drawing full salary and to commence receiving the lesser pension payments, that is claimed as an inchoate right or "entitlement" protected by the alleged contract with the Commonwealth.... But, if there is no basic vested right to office, we cannot see how any inchoate right to choose when to retire from that office can be protected against constitutional amendment. Plaintiffs' sophisticated argument ... is but an assertion that tenure in office, which concededly has not been directly guaranteed, can be indirectly guaranteed by recognition of the "inchoate right" to determine when to cease drawing full salary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“protected by the alleged contract with the Commonwealth.... But, if there is no basic vested right to office, we cannot see how any inchoate right to choose when to retire from that office can be protected against constitutional amendment. Plaintiffs' sophisticated argument ... is but an assertion that tenure in office, which concededly has not been directly guaranteed, can be indirectly guaranteed by recognition of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No State shall . . . pass any . Law impairing the obligation of Contracts . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stiftel v. Carper
How this case has been treated — in progress
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