The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up a case involving a dispute over premiums charged to government retirees on North Carolina’s State Health Plan. The court issued an order Monday denying the state’s request to hear the case. The case affects about 220,000 retirees.
Where a plaintiff union and four individual members have filed a complaint challenging the commonwealth’s requirement that employees be fully vaccinated to continue employment, Count I of the complaint, alleging violations of the Contracts Clause, must be dismissed because the union is currently pursing similar claims at the Department of Labor Relations. Recent opinion digests
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein has filed paperwork urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a dispute involving premiums charged to government retirees on the State Health Plan. The state hopes the nation’s highest court will overturn a March 11 ruling from the N.C. Supreme Court. State justices ruled by a 4-2 vote that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them.