Snyder v. EMPLOYES'RETIREMENT BD.

CRAIG, Judge.

This appeal, by Bernard Snyder from a decision of the Pennsylvania State Employes’ Retirement Board (SERB) terminating payment of his pension benefits, chiefly poses the question of whether Snyder should be deemed to have been “removed from office” as a judge under art. V, § 16(b) of the Pennsylvania Constitution, so as to lose entitlement, to pension compensation, where Snyder left office as a result of losing a retention election after the Judicial Inquiry and Review Board (JIRB) had petitioned the Supreme Court for his removal, but before the date of the Supreme Court’s…