Maryland State Teachers Ass'n v. Hughes

How courts have described this case

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• construing Maryland law to determine whether legislature may contract away its power to alter pension contracts
• court held amendment to state retirement plan which was prospectively applied and was necessary to preserve fiscal integrity of System was not a \drastic\ impairment, thus appropriate
• In finding that State action did not violate the Contract Clause the court pointed out that modified pension plans for teachers and state employees permitted those individuals to select between new plans, including one that offered all prior benefits, but at an increased cost.
• providing a detailed description of Maryland pension reform
• discussing the Retirement System and the Pension System
• discussing the Retirement System and the Pension System

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).