THOMPSON v. WALKER

No. 84-1448.

758 F.2d 1004 (1985)

W. Carrington THOMPSON, Harold H. Purcell, David Meade White, Stuart L. Craig, Appellants, v. Charles B. WALKER, Matthew Blackwood, Stuart W. Connock, J. Aubrey Houghton, Ray C. Hunt, Jr., Walter J. Mika, Jr., Edwin C. Stone, The Virginia State Bar, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. West, Jr., Alexandria, Va. (Stephen C. Greenberg, Murphy, McGettigan & West, P.C., Alexandria, Va., on brief), for appellants.

John A. Gibney, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth B. Lacy, Deputy Atty. Gen., Malcolm R. West, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.


MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Four former Virginia judges have brought suit for a declaration that certain provisions of the Commonwealth's judicial retirement system covering them are unconstitutional, both under the Equal Protection Clause of Amendment Fourteen of the Federal Constitution and under the Commonwealth Constitution. For reasons which follow, we agree with the district judge that the requested relief was properly denied, although we readily admit that the...

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