Modification: Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's Association v. Alameda County Employees Retirement Association

ALAMEDA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION et al.,

Plaintiffs and Appellants,

v.

ALAMEDA COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ASSN. AND BD. OF THE ALAMEDA COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ASSN. et al.,

Defendants and Respondents;

SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 1021 et al.,

Interveners;

BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY et al.,

Interveners and Appellants.

No. A141913

(Contra Costa County

Super. Ct. No. MSN12-1870)

California Courts of Appeal

First Appellate District

Division Four

Filed February 5, 2018

ORDER MODIFYING OPINION

[NO CHANGE IN JUDGMENT]

Counsel for Appellant:Isaac S. Stevens, Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller & Associates

Timothy K. Talbot, Rockne A. Lucia, Rains, Lucia & Willinson

W. David Holsberry, McCracken, Stemerman & Holsberry

Counsel for Respondent: Harvey L. Leiderman, Reed Smith; Rei Onishi, Ashley K. Dunning

Nossaman; Robert L. Gaumer, Alameda City Employees' Retirement Association

Counsel for Intervenor:Anne I. Yen, Vincent A. Harrington, Jr., Kerianne Steele, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Peter W. Saltzman, Leonard Carder LLP, Vishtasp Soroushian Andrew H. Baker, Teague P. Paterson Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, Robert Bonsall Beeson, Tayer, Silbert & Bodine, Katwyn T. DeLaRosa, Bennett & Sharpe, Inc., William I. Corman Bogatin, Corman & Gold, Christopher E. Platten, Wylie, McBride, Platten & Renner, Paul Q. Goyette, Goyette &Associates, Arthur W. Liou, Leonard Carder, Robert J. Bezemek, Wright Lassiter, III Mark Friedman, Brian E. Washington, Michael E. Kyle Randick, O'Dea & Tooliatos, Rod A. Attebery, Neumiller & Beardslee, Richard D. Pio, RodaKenton Alm, Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson, Linda M. Ross, Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai, James D. Maynard, Maynard Law, David J. Larsen, Silver & Wright, Thomas L. Geiger, Contra Costa County Counsel, Lyle R. Nishimi, Judicial Council of California, Marie D. Hanson, Hanson Bridgett, Barbara Fee Carl P. Nelson, Bold, Polisner, Maddow, Nelson & Judson, Robert Leete, William D. Ross, Craig Downs , Martin T. Snyder Snyder, Cornelius & Hunter, Sue Casey Barry J. Bennett Bennett, Sharpe, Delarosa, Bennett & Licalsi

Counsel for Intervenor Anthony P. O'Brien and Respondent Office of the Attorney General

It is ordered that the opinion filed January 8, 2018, be modified as follows:

The last line on the first page of the opinion is amended to read "Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2013 and related legislation (interchangeably, PEPRA, the Pension Reform Act, or AB 197) in an".

In footnote 5 on page 10 of the opinion and footnote 9 on page 16 of the opinion the words "were employed" are replaced by the words "became members."

Footnote 7 is moved to immediately after footnote 6 on page 12 of the opinion, such that the last line of the first paragraph of section "B." is amended read: "seq.; Stats. 2012, ch. 296.)^{6 7"}

Footnote 7 is amended to read as follows:

"At the same time the Legislature passed AB 340, it also enacted Assembly Bill 197 (AB 197), with the declared purpose to exclude from CERL's definition of compensation earnable " 'any compensation determined by the [county retirement] board to have been paid to enhance a member's retirement benefit.' " (Marin, supra, 2 Cal.App.5th at p. 683, fn. omitted.) For purposes of our analysis, we see no material difference between the versions of section 31461 codified by AB 340 and AB 197. (See Marin, supra, 2 Cal.App.5th at p. 684, fn. 5 [noting that AB 197 adds subdivision (c) to section 31461]; see also footnote 17, post [finding AB 197's addition of "payable" to the concept of "earned" in subdivision (b) to be of little significance in this litigation].) For purposes of our opinion, we will follow the custom of referring to both legislative enactments as AB 197, and---as stated above---that designation, along with the Pension Reform Act and PEPRA, will all be used interchangeably."

The spelling of "pre-PERPA" is corrected to "pre-PEPRA" on page 18 (six lines from the bottom of the page) and page 45 (three lines from the bottom of the page).

On page 61 (three lines from the bottom of the page) the spelling of "AECRA" and "MECRA" are corrected to "ACERA" and "MCERA," respectively.

There is no change in the judgment.

REARDON, J.

We concur:

RUVOLO, P. J.

RIVERA, J.*

*Retired Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Four, assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to article VI, section 6 of the California Constitution.