State Employees' Ass'n v. Lang

ORDER

DEVINE, Chief Judge.

This Order addresses the issues raised by plaintiffs’ motion to alter or amend the Order of this Court entered on February 17, 1988, 682 F.Supp. 660.

Disregarding the nonsubstantive objections plaintiffs have made to the Court’s Order, see Motion to Alter or Amend Judgment ¶¶ 1-2, the gravamen of plaintiffs’ substantive objection is that the New Hampshire Supreme Court never considered the federal constitutional validity of the phase-in law, Laws of 1986, ch. 231, and therefore this inquiry is capable of review in this court. Plaintiffs argue that because the phase-in…