Karen Pineman v. William G. Oechslin

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \only those arrangements enforceable as contractual obligations under state law are protected by the Contract Clause against impairment\
• \Federal courts test only whether a state act violates some specific check on state power contained in the federal constitution\
• “[T]he federal courts, thereafter resolving the constitutional issue, will not be obliged to give the state court ruling the conclusive deference that abstention normally entails”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).