CARMICHAEL v. LABORERS' & RETIREMENT BOARD

Docket Nos. 122793, 122822.

125 N.E.3d 383 (2018)

2018 IL 122793

Rochelle CARMICHAEL et al., Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. LABORERS' & RETIREMENT BOARD EMPLOYEES' ANNUITY & BENEFIT FUND OF CHICAGO et al., Cross-Appellees (The State of Illinois ex rel. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Appellant and Cross-Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 29, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, of Springfield ( David L. Franklin , Solicitor General, and Richard S. Huszagh , Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellant.

J. Peter Dowd , Justin J. Lannoye , and George A. Luscombe III , of Dowd, Bloch, Bennett, Cervone, Auerbach & Yokich, of Chicago, for appellees.

John F. Kennedy , Cary E. Donham , and Graham Grady , of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, of Chicago, for cross-appellee Laborers' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago.

Mary Patricia Burns , Vincent D. Pinelli , and Martin T. Burns , of Burke Burns & Pinelli, Ltd., of Chicago, for cross-appellees Municipal Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago and Retirement Board of the. Municipal Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago.


OPINION

¶ 1 This case involves challenges to the applicability and constitutionality of Public Act 97-651 (eff. Jan. 5, 2012), which altered articles 8, 11, and 17 of the Illinois Pension Code (40 ILCS 5/arts. 8, 11, 17 (West 2012)). The individual plaintiffs are nine...

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