Porter v. Maine State Retirement System

CLIFFORD, Justice.

Cheryl Porter appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (York County, Fritzsche, J.) affirming the decision of the Board of Trustees of the Maine State Retirement System (MSRS) that Porter’s deceased husband, Vance Porter, had less than twenty-five years of creditable service in connection with his employment as a teacher, thereby entitling Porter to surviv- or benefits only, as opposed to full service retirement benefits. We are unpersuaded by Porter’s contention that the method employed by MSRS for calculating service credit for a teacher’s unused sick days is…