Just hours after the polls were tallied and Californian voters showed their backing for public pension reform measures in San Jose and San Diego, San Jose police officers followed through on their threat to sue if the bills passed.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, members of the San Jose Police Officers' Association filed a lawsuit in Santa Clara County Superior Court, alleging that the vote Tuesday "violated vested rights" to their pensions.
SJPOA president Jim Unland told the Mercury News that a series of previous court rulings have suggested that government employers cannot dump their employee pension obligations without offering replacement benefits.
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