Legal Opinion
Harper v. State Employees' Retirement System
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 31, 1994PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
This is a direct appeal from an order of the Commonwealth Court which denied Class D-3 membership status in the State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) for the appellants, Ruth B. Harper and Nicholas B. Moehlmann, 154 Pa.Cmwlth. 573, 624 A.2d 279. Appellants are Pennsylvania legislators who initially took office after the March 1, 1974 effective date of the 1974 State Employees’ Retirement Code, 71 Pa.C.S. §§ 5101-5956, which eliminated as to all who took office after that date an option to receive Class D-3 pension benefits.
Class D-3 benefits substantially exceed those of the…
3Cases cited9 opinions
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- San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- James v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation AuthoritySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
- Goodheart v. CaseySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
- Wright v. Allegheny County Retirement BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1957
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4Cited by8 opinions
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- Rybak v. State Employees' Retirement BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1994
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