Ayman v. Teachers' Retirement Board

These are two appeals by the New York City Teachers’ Retirement Board, taken on constitutional grounds, from orders of the Appellate Division, First Department, which unanimously affirmed without opinion orders of Special Term, Supreme Court, New York County, in article 78 proceedings. Petitioners are members of the Teachers Retirement System which is administered by appellant board. They challenge the legality of the board’s method of calculating the annuity portion of the retirement allowance to which they and others similarly situated are or will be entitled. The case of Birnbaum v. New…