Kennebec County v. Maine Public Employees Retirement System

Majority: ALEXANDER, LEVY, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.

Dissent: SILVER, J.

ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] Kennebec County appeals from a judgment entered in the Business and Consumer Docket (Horton, J.) that affirmed a decision of the Board of Trustees for the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MPERS). The Board had implicitly or explicitly concluded that: (1) MPERS had authority to adjudicate claims that some County employees were inadequately advised of their option to join MPERS at the time the employees were initially hired long before the employees began efforts to join MPERS; (2) at each employee’s…