It's Official: O.C. Can't Steal Sheriffs' Pensions

Affirming its tentative ruling from last week, L.A. Superior Court Judge Helen Bendix has tossed out a lawsuit by the Orange Co. Board of Supervisors seeking to take away negotiated retirement benefits. Rejecting legal arguments that the payments are unconstitutional, Judge Bendix affirmed a judgment favoring the Orange County Deputy Sheriffs...

Affirming its tentative ruling from last week, L.A. Superior Court Judge Helen Bendix has tossed out a lawsuit by the Orange Co. Board of Supervisors seeking to take away negotiated retirement benefits. Rejecting legal arguments that the payments are unconstitutional, Judge Bendix affirmed a judgment favoring the Orange County Deputy Sheriffs  two months before the case was set to go to trial. The decision is a major victory for retirement security and yet another stinging defeat for anti-retirement ideologues.

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