O'Connor v. Board of Trustees

ALFORD, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Barry A. O’Connor, from a judgment of the district court denying his petition for judicial review of a decision of the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana State Police Retirement System concluding that Sgt. O’Con-nor’s disability was due to a “continued illness”, entitling him to disability retirement benefits of 40 percent, rather than due to an injury in the line of police work, which would entitle him to disability retirement benefits of 75 percent of his average monthly salary.

The lower court held that the suit was not properly before it…