Jacobs v. New Jersey State Highway Authority

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Francis, J.

The issue here is the propriety of the action taken by the New Jersey State Highway Authority in forcing plaintiffs Jacobs and Ewing, two of its employees, to retire, Jacobs at age 66 years and Ewing at 65)4 years. This was done pursuant to a department regulation issued on October 30, 1964. On that date all employees were notified that the Authority Commissioners had adopted “a retirement policy [to become effective January 1, 1965] which provides that all Authority employees shall retire upon attaining age 65.” The regulation authorized…