Ahern v. Mackey

¶ 1. Plaintiffs are fifteen members of the State Teachers’ Retirement System who petitioned the Retirement Board for compensation and other related relief stemming from the purchase of out-of-state service credit when plaintiffs transferred retirement plans in 1981. The Board denied their request, and plaintiffs challenged the decision pursuant to a Vermont Rule of Civil Procedure 75 complaint against the System and its individual trustees in superior court. The court dismissed plaintiffs’ tort and civil rights claims, and subsequently entered summary judgment for defendants, ruling that the…