Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Commonwealth
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 24, 1984No. Civ. A. No. 83-0321PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
HERMAN, District Judge.
1. INTRODUCTION
Pennsylvania law currently provides that any member of the Pennsylvania State Police, regardless of rank, who reaches the age of sixty, must resign from the force,1 unless at that age he has attained less than twenty years of service. 71 P.S. § 65(d) (Purdon’s Supp.1984-85). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and various State Police officers have attacked the validity of this law as a violation of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634.2 The Commonwealth has countered that the…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Griggs v. Duke Power Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Udall v. TallmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. MurgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. ChadhaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Vance v. BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by2 opinions
- EEOC v. Com. of Pa.District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1984
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. New JerseyDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1985