Fields v. Elected Officials' Retirement Plan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statutory formula for determining retiree benefit increases constitutes a pension benefit for purposes of the Pension Clause
• holding that the statutory formula for determining retiree benefit increases constitutes a pension benefit for purposes of the Pension Clause
• holding that the statutory formula for determining retiree benefit increases constitutes a pension benefit for purposes of the Pension Clause
• noting that the Court interprets Arizona’s contract clause using an “analysis similar to that employed by the Supreme Court” when interpreting the federal contract clause
• noting that the Court interprets Arizona’s contract clause using an “analysis similar to that employed by the Supreme Court” when interpreting the federal contract clause
• recognizing that courts construe statutes to avoid making parts superfluous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).