State Ex Rel. Spire v. Public Employees Retirement Board

How courts have described this case

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• finding legislative pension plan was a form of compensation and therefore violated the constitutional limitation
• action for a declaratory judgment that a statute was unconstitutional and for an injunction against enforcement of the unconstitutional statute
• action for a declaratory judgment that a statute was unconstitutional and for an injunction against enforcement of the unconstitutional statute
• relevant date for determining meaning of constitutional language is 1934, the date of the initiative adopting the provisions at issue, rather than 1875, when the language was originally adopted
• retirement plan is encompassed in constitutional prohibition of additional \pay\ or \perquisites\
• legislative declaration of constitutionality did not overcome true unconstitutional nature of statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).