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CSEA v. REGAN

71 N.Y.2d 653 (1988)

Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, et al., Appellants, v. Edward V. Regan, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 31, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie E. Karowe for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Peter G. Crary, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondents.

Christopher H. Gardner, Richard E. Casagrande and Richard O'Hara for Council 82, AFSCME, AFL-CIO and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, and HANCOCK, JR., concur.

BELLACOSA, J.

Article V, § 7 of the New York State Constitution provides valued safeguards for public employees against the diminishment or impairment of pension rights which are fixed and determined by the laws and conditions in existence at the time membership in the pension system commences. We agree with the Appellate Division that chapter 890 of the Laws of 1976 did not violate that constitutional protection...

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