Alldredge v. Oklahoma Firefighters Pension & Retirement Board

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HUNTER, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from the District Court of Comanche County which entered a declaratory judgment and injunction on December 7, 1989, in favor of all Appellees. Appellees were firefighters for the City of Lawton and each had ten or more years of service as of January 1, 1981, with the exception of two. On that date, local firefighter pension plans were merged by statute into one state program.

Prior to January 1, 1981, the only way a firefighter could receive a pension was to have completed twenty years of service or to have become disabled. A statute was…