Estate of Esther Hussey v. Milwaukee County

How courts have described this case

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

• relying on relevant ordinances to determine if Milwaukee County retirees had a vested right to premium-free health insurance
• relying on relevant ordinances to determine if Milwaukee County retirees had a vested right to premium-free health insurance
• county’s historical practice of providing cost-free health insurance to retirees did not create a vested property right in free health insurance because no state law or municipal ordinance explicitly provided for free health insurance
• “Property interests, of course, are not created by the Constitution . . . [T]hey are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law . . . .”
• exact nature of claimed property right must be ascertained

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).