State Employees' Ass'n of New Hampshire, Inc. v. Belknap County

These are cross-appeals from a Superior Court (Temple, J.) decision requiring Belknap County to enroll certain of its employees in the New Hampshire Retirement System. The principal defendants, Belknap County and the retirement system, challenge the trial court’s denial of their respective motions to dismiss as well as the court’s certification of the underlying action as a class action. The State Employees’ Association, the representative of the plaintiff class of employees, claims that the trial court defined the members of the class too narrowly and provided an inadequate remedy. We affirm…