McNichols v. City and County of Denver

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding validity of ordinance establishing retirement program for city employees and distribution of the fund in event of termination of plan on the basis of the plan’s “public purpose”
• upholding validity of ordinance establishing retirement program for city employees and distribution of the fund in event of termination of plan on the basis of the plan's \public purpose\
• city contribution to police pension fund for distribution to pensioners was not a donation where there was a public purpose served by pensions for public employees
• contribution by municipality to employee pension plan justified as part of employees’ compensation; otherwise, it would be an invalid gift or gratuity prohibited by state constitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).