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Feb. 16, 2012

Top 5 Appellate Reversals--Retired Employees Association of Orange County v. County of Orange


In 2007, citing budgetary concerns, the County of Orange changed a longstanding and uninterrupted practice of combining benefits for active and retired employees into a single unified pool for the purposes of calculating health insurance premiums.


In response, the Retired Employees Association of Orange County filed a lawsuit on behalf of approximately 4,600 retired county employees contesting the validity of this change on the basis that it violated an implied c...

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