Miller v. State of California

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that pension rights, unlike tenure of civil service employment, are deferred compensation that cannot be destroyed without impairing contractual obligations
• “ ‘[Statutory provisions controlling the terms and conditions of civil service employment cannot be circumvented by purported contracts in conflict therewith.’ . . .”
• \public employment arises not by virtue of contract but by the terms and conditions fixed by statute... .\
• “[T]he right to pension benefits vests upon the acceptance of [governmental] employment.”
• “public employment is not held by contract but by statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).