City of Frederick v. Quinn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that government pensions are \more contractual than gratuitous\ and citing a \reserved legislative power\ to make reasonable modifications in a pension plan
• “If reasonable substitution is offered by an employer and it is declined by the employee, he is barred prospectively from further claims upon the rejected plan…. But the rights which have accrued under the terminated plan may not be retrospectively withdrawn from him.”

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