COL. HTS. POLICE REL. ASS'N v. CITY OF COL. HTS.

No. 45050.

233 N.W.2d 760 (1975)

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS POLICE RELIEF ASSOCIATION, et al., Respondents, v. CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

September 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Juster, Feikema, Haskvitz & Casserly and Ronald L. Haskvitz, Peterson & Kalina and Ronald S. Kalina, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Peter W. Sipkins, Sol. Gen., Merwin W. Peterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent PERA.

Barna, Guzy, Hynes, Giancola & Jensen, Minneapolis, for respondent Columbia Heights Police Relief Assn.

Heard before ROGOSHESKE, PETERSON, and KELLY, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

Appeal by the city of Columbia Heights from a judgment declaring invalid a charter amendment enacted by the city council by ordinance requiring all police officers hired after June 15, 1972, to become members of the Public Employees Retirement Association Police and Fire Fund (PERA) and prohibiting their membership in the Columbia Heights Police Relief Association (CHPRA).

CHPRA filed a petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the city...

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