San Diego Police Officers' Ass'n v. San Diego City Employees' Retirement System

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that in Federal Contracts Clause claims “federal courts look to state law to determine the existence of a contract” before using federal principles in conducting Contracts Clause analysis
• explaining that in Federal Contracts Clause claims “federal courts look to state law to determine the existence of a contract” before using federal principles in conducting Contracts Clause analysis
• stating that in Contracts Clause analysis, state statutes “must evince a clear and unmistakable indication” of legislature’s intent to form contractual relationship before they may be read to create contract
• holding 1 remaining against them in the district court, [defendants] were clearly the prevailing 2 parties” and, “[a]s such, they were entitled to the award of costs decreed by the district 3 court”
• discussing California’s “primary right” approach to 21 determining whether two suits involve the same cause of action
• discussing California’s “primary right” approach to 22 determining whether two suits involve the same cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).