A court case against the UC system over health benefits for retirees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is expected to be heard by the Alameda County Superior Court almost a decade after it was first filed… “The retirees are on the verge of holding the University to account to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars,” Whitaker said in an email. He added that the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in 2015, when the first part of the case was tried. The profit that UC earns from the laboratory on an annual basis is roughly equal to the amount that it would cost to provide health care coverage for the retirees, according to Sinclair.

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by Kate Finman, The Daily Californian.

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