Government Pension Cuts Tangled in Patchwork of Legal Rulings

The New York Times: Two years ago, lawmakers in Puerto Rico faced the soaring cost of government pensions and did what lawmakers across the United States have been doing: They cut the pensions.

Lawsuits followed, with curious results. When the first three cases reached the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, the pension cuts were affirmed. But months later, when two more cases arrived, the court halted them as “unreasonable and, therefore, unconstitutional.” The same justice wrote both decisions.

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