ALAMEDA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSN. v. ALAMEDA COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ASSN.

No. S247095.

9 Cal.5th 1032 (2020)

ALAMEDA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. ALAMEDA COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION et al., Defendants and Respondents; STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Interveners and Appellants. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION et al., Defendants and Respondents; STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Interveners and Appellants. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. MERCED COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION et al., Defendants and Respondents; STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Interveners and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

July 30, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mastagni Holstedt , Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller & Associates, David P. Mastagni , David E. Mastagni and Isaac S. Stevens for Plaintiffs and Appellants Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's Association, Jon Rudolph, Rocky Medeiros, James Nelson and Darlene Hornsby.

Leonard Carder, Peter Saltzman and Arthur Liou for Plaintiffs and Appellants Public Employees Union, Local 1, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21, Alameda County Management Employees' Association, David M. Rolley, Peter J. Ellis and Susan Guest.

Rains, Lucia & Willinson, Rains Lucia Stern, St. Phalle & Silver, Rockne A. Lucia, Jr. , Timothy K. Talbot , Steven M. Betz and Zachery A. Lopes for Plaintiffs and Appellants Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriffs Association and Ken Westermann.

Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Anne I. Yen , Vincent A. Harrington, Jr. , and Kerianne Steele for Plaintiffs and Appellants Service Employees International Union, Local 1021 and Building Trades Council of Alameda County.

Bogatin Corman & Gold and William I. Corman for Plaintiffs and Appellants Physicians' and Dentists' Organization of Contra Costa.

Davis, Cowell & Bowe, McCracken, Stemerman & Holsberry and W. David Holsberry for Plaintiffs and Appellants United Professional Fire Fighters of Contra Costa County, Local 1230.

Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, Beeson, Tayer, Silbert & Bodine, Robert Bonsall , Vishtasp Soroushian , Teague P. Paterson and Adrian Barnes for Plaintiffs and Appellants AFSCME Local 512, AFSCME Local 2700, Teamsters Local 856, Hasani Tabari, Sandra Gonzalez-Diaz and Daniel Lister.

Bennett, Sharpe, Delarosa, Bennett & Licalsi, Law Offices of Bennett & Sharpe, Barry J. Bennett , Thomas M. Sharpe and Katwyn T. DeLaRosa for Plaintiffs and Appellants American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 2703, AFL-CIO, Merced County Sheriff's Association, an affiliate of International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 856, Jeffrey Miller and Mary McWatters.

Messing Adam & Jasmine, Gary M. Messing , Gregg McLean Adam and Yonatan L. Moskowitz for CAL FIRE, Local 2881, California Correctional Peace Officers Association, Peace Officers Research Association of California, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, San Francisco Police Officers' Association, San Jose Police Officers' Association, Fresno Deputy Sheriffs' Association, Deputy Sheriffs' Association of Santa Clara County, Marin Professional Firefighters, International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1775, Association of California State Supervisors, San Francisco Municipal Executives' Association, San Francisco Deputy Probation Officers' Association, Sunnyvale Public Safety Officers' Association, Superior Court Professional Employees' Association of the County of Santa Clara, Sacramento County Professional Accounts Association, City of Fremont Employees' Association, Redwood City Management Employees' Association, Burlingame Police Officers' Association and California State Retirees 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.

Law Offices of Robert J. Bezemek, Robert J. Bezemek and David Conway for the Peralta Retirees Organization, the California Community Colleges Independents' Organization and the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Reed Smith, Harvey L. Leiderman , Jeffrey R. Rieger , Robert L. Gaumer and May-tak Chin for Defendants and Respondents Alameda County Employees' Retirement Association and Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association and their respective Boards of Retirement.

Nossaman, Ashley K. Dunning , Peter H. Mixon , Michael V. Toumanoff , Jill N. Jaffe , Natasha Saggar Sheth and Jennifer Meeker for Defendants and Respondents Merced County Employees' Retirement Association and Merced County Employees' Retirement Association Board of Retirement.

Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra , Attorneys General, Douglas J. Woods and Thomas S. Patterson , Assistant Attorneys General, Constance L. LeLouis and Anthony P. O'Brien , Deputy Attorneys General, Peter Krause , Legal Affairs Secretary, Rei R. Onishi , Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary, for Intervener and Appellant State of California.

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

Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, Michael G. Colantuono and Liliane M. Wyckoff for League of California Cities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Appellant State of California.

Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson, Richard D. PioRoda , Kenton L. Alm ; Renee Sloan Holtzman Sakai; Renee Public Law Group, Linda M. Ross and Randy Riddle for Real Party in Interest Central Contra Costa Sanitary District.

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

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


OPINION

The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA; Stats. 2012, ch. 296, § 1) substantially revised the laws governing the pension plans of the state's public employees. In a prior decision, Cal Fire Local 2881 v. California Public Employees' Retirement System (2019) 6...

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