CAL FIRE LOCAL 2881 v. CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

No. S239958.

6 Cal.5th 965 (2019)

CAL FIRE LOCAL 2881 et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Defendant and Respondent; STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Intervener and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

March 4, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, Messing Adam & Jasmine, Gary M. Messing , Gregg McLean Adam , Jason H. Jasmine and Yonatan L. Moskowitz for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Olson, Hagel & Fishburn, Christopher W. Waddell , Lance H. Olson , Deborah B. Caplan and Richard C. Miadich for Californians for Retirement Security as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Silver, Hadden, Silver and Levine, Stephen H. Silver and Jacob A. Kalinski for Ventura County Professional Fire Fighters Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Mastagni Holstedt, David E. Mastagni , Isaac S. Sevens , Jeffrey R.A. Edwards and Erich A. Knorr for Lake County Correctional Officers' Association, Mendocino County Deputy Sheriffs' Association, Merced City Firefighters, International Association of Firefighters, Local 1479, AFL-CIO, Napa City Firefighters Association, International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 3124, AFL-CIO, Palo Alto Firefighters, International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1319, AFL-CIO, Sacramento Area Firefighters, International Association of Firefighters, Local 522, AFL-CIO, Santa Clara County Correctional Officers Association, Deputy Sheriffs' Association of Alameda County, El Dorado County Deputy Sheriff's Association, Ontario Police Officers' Association, Sacramento Police Officers Association and Sacramento County Deputy Sheriff's Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Leonard Carder, Peter W. Saltzman , Kate Hallward and Arthur Liou for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1225, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21, Marin Association of Public Employees, Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 and Physicians' and Dentists' Organization of Contra Costa as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, Stephen H. Silver and Timothy K. Talbot for Los Angeles Police Protective League, Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs' Association, California Association of Highway Patrol, Garden Grove Police Association, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, Orange County Employees' Association, Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers' Association, Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs' Association of Santa Clara, Fresno Deputy Sheriffs' Association, Coalition of Santa Monica City Employees and Antioch Police Officers' Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Reich, Adell & Cvitan, Marianne Reinhold , Laurence S. Zakson and Aaron G. Lawrence for Orange County Attorneys Association and Orange County Managers Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Rothner, Segall & Greenstone and Glenn Rothner for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association, Service Employees International Union, California Faculty Association, California Federation of Teachers and California Teachers Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Matthew G. Jacobs , Wesley E. Kennedy and Preet Kaur for Defendant and Respondent.

Brian J. Bartow and Scott S. Brooks for California State Teachers' Retirement System as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

Jonathan M. Coupal ; Benbrook Law Group, Bradley A. Benbrook and Stephen M. Duvernay for Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Ventura County Taxpayers Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra , Attorneys General, Douglas J. Woods and Thomas S. Patterson , Assistant Attorneys General, Tamar Pachter and Nelson Ryan Richards , Deputy Attorneys General; Peter A. Krause and Rei R. Onishi for Intervener and Respondent.

Atkinson, Andelson, Loya Ruud & Romo, Anthony P. De Marco and Joshua E. Morrison for Association of California School Administrators as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Jones Day, Beth Heifetz , G. Ryan Snyder and Karen P. Hewitt for California Business Roundtable as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai, Jonathan Holtzman and Linda M. Ross for League of California Cities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Bruce D. Goldstein , County Counsel (Sonoma), Debbie F. Latham , Chief Deputy County Counsel; and Dennis Bunting , County Counsel (Solano) for County of Sonoma and County of Solano as Amici Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Lounsbery Ferguson Altona & Peak, Kenneth H. Lounsbery , James P. Lough and Alena Shamos for City of Pacific Grove as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Daniel M. Kolkey , Perlette Michèle Jura , Theodore M. Kider and Samuel D. Eisenberg for Pacific Research Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland and Timothy T. Coates for Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association as Amicus Curiae.


OPINION

In late 2012, our Legislature enacted the California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA; Gov. Code, § 7522 et seq.; Stats. 2012, ch. 296, § 15; see Gov. Code, § 7222 et seq.), substantially revising the laws governing public...

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