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Michigan Supreme Court Lansing, Michigan

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ALBERTA STUDIER, PATRICIA M. SANOCKI, MARY A. NICHOLS, LAVIVA M. CABAY, MARY L. WOODRING, and MILDRED E. WEDELL, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT BOARD, MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, and TREASURER OF MICHIGAN, Defendants-Appellees. _________________________________/ ALBERTA STUDIER, PATRICIA M. SANOCKI, MARY A. NICHOLS, LAVIVA M. CABAY, MARY L. WOODRING, and MILDRED E. WEDELL, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMLOYEES' RETIREMENT BOARD, MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, and TREASURER OF MICHIGAN, Defendants-Appellants. ________________________________/ BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH TAYLOR, C.J.

Chief Justice:

Justices:

Clifford W. Taylor

Michael F. Cavanagh Elizabeth A. Weaver Marilyn Kelly Maura D. Corrigan Robert P. Young, Jr. Stephen J. Markman

FILED JUNE 28, 2005

No. 125765

No. 125766

We granted leave in this case to consider two issues. The first is whether health care benefits paid to public school retirees constitute "accrued financial benefits"

subject to protection from diminishment or impairment by Const 1963, art 9,

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