Grottenthaler v. Pennsylvania State Police

How courts have described this case

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• certain pension-related provisions of a collective bargaining agreement enforceable despite countervailing terms of the State Employees’ Retirement Code
• “[A] municipality [can]not avoid the effect of a term of the [CBA] it had entered into, by asserting that the contract provision was in violation of State law.”
• “[A] municipality [can]not avoid the effect of a term of the [CBA] it had entered into, by asserting that the contract provision was in violation of State law.”
• Commonwealth estopped from arguing that a provision of a collective bargaining agreement was invalid
• “We are well aware of the State’s interest in the actuarial soundness of the retirement system provided for its employees, but we also recognize that the integrity of the bargaining process in the public sector is of equal importance.”
• where the Supreme Court determined that “a municipality can not avoid the effect of a term of the collective bargaining agreement it had entered into, by asserting that the contract provision was in violation of State law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).