Michael Bakalekos, James Bauldree, Randall Beers, Curtis Briggs, Darel Casteel, Dan Chandler, Mary Cook, Robert…

Summary

The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed summary judgment for the Policemen’s Pension and Relief Fund and its Board on challenges to fixed-dollar benefit increases granted to some retirees. The court held that the governing statute authorized the Board to increase benefits in fixed amounts, supplied adequate standards to avoid an unconstitutional delegation, permitted increases for current rather than future retirees, and had a rational basis as applied. The court declined to decide the statute-of-limitations issue because doing so would be advisory.