Connolly v. McCall

Plaintiff-appellant Timothy J. Connolly, a former employee of the New York City Police Department (the “NYPD”) and a current employee of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force (the “Task Force”), challenges New York State’s statutory scheme governing the eligibility for public pensions of those employees who work in one public job, retire, and then begin work in a second public job. In particular, Connolly alleges that it violates the federal constitution for New York to require that its retired public employees, while they are employed in a subsequent public job, either forgo receipt…