Legal Opinion
Parker v. Wakelin
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 11, 1997No. 96-2225 through 96-2228PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
The question presented by this appeal is whether certain legislative amendments to the Maine State Retirement System (“MSRS”) violate the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution as applied to plaintiffs, a class comprised of current Maine public school teachers all 'of whom are members of the MSRS. Following a bench trial, the district court held that certain amendments violated the Contract Clause as applied to those public employees who had satisfied the service requirements under the MSRS and whose pension rights had thereby “vested.” Finding no…
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