Woodard v. North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System

LEWIS, Judge.

The present case is virtually identical, both factually and legally, to Faulkenbury v. Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System of North Carolina, filed simultaneously herewith. By this *380action the plaintiffs challenge an amendment, effective 1 July 1982, to the retirement disability statute in place for local government employees in this State. The case is before this Court from a denial of defendants’ motion to dismiss the action, and from the trial court’s certifying the action as a class action.

Plaintiff William H. Woodard was a police officer for the City of…