McKenna v. State Employees' Retirement Board

OPINION

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is a class action brought by appellees, Judge J. Frank McKenna and Judge Frederic G. Weir, on behalf of all state court judges who were active and had ten or more years of service as of June 22, 1972. The class members contend that their benefits under the State Employees’ Retirement Code of 1959 have been unconstitutionally impaired by actions of the Commonwealth Compensation Commission taken on June 22, 1972, and by provisions of the revised State Employees’ Retirement Code, enacted in 1974. The Commonwealth *326Court agreed with class members’ contention and…