American Federation of Teachers – New Hampshire & a. v. State of New Hampshire & a.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the New Hampshire Retirement System “is a contributory, public employee, defined-benefit pension plan”
• “Recognizing that the principal function of a legislature is not to make contracts, but to make laws that establish the policy of the state, we recently adopted the unmistakability doctrine.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• \vesting\ often refers to the period provided by a plan for which an employee must work to become eligible for a pension or other retirement benefit provided by the employer if and when the employee attains retirement age
• pension plan members did not have vested rights to a COLA where the court was “not persuaded that the statutory language established a contractual obligation to provide a COLA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).