Johnson v. Utah State Retirement Board

DURHAM, Justice:

Defendants seek reversal of the lower court’s decree permanently enjoining them from applying or attempting to apply a 1985 amendment of the Utah Public Safety Retirement Act1 (the Act) to plaintiffs in such a manner as to eliminate, postpone, or reduce payment of plaintiffs’ retirement benefits. Plaintiffs are employed as sheriffs and chiefs of police by public safety organizations in the state of Utah and have been members of the Utah Public Safety Retirement System (PSRS).

Pursuant to a 1983 amendment of the Act, plaintiffs opted to exclude themselves from PSRS coverage.…