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CJ analysis of the Kentucky pension ruling

By Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier Journal

In a sweeping and unanimous opinion, the Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the Kentucky General Assembly's last-minute passage of a public pension overhaul in the 2018 session.

In affirming a previous opinion by Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd, the high court found that the legislature attempted to game the system by stripping the contents from a wastewater treatment bill and replacing them with 291 pages of text about pension reform.

The ruling doesn't address the substance of Senate Bill 151, the wastewater-turned-pension measure. Rather, it rejects the way the bill was passed as unconstitutional.

Read the full story at courier-journal.com

In a response to the ruling, Governor Bevin called the court's opinion "an unprecedented power grab," that would "erode the rule of law that is the foundation of our government."

More on Bevin's response, also at courier-journal.com.




This story was posted on 2018-12-14 03:28:15
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