BAKER v. OKLAHOMA FIREFIGHTERS PENSION AND RETIREMENT SYSTEM

No. 64354.

718 P.2d 348 (1986)

Thomas L. BAKER, Bill C. McCawley, Thomas J. Riddle, Frank M. Comfort, Dan Herrington, Steve W. Cain and Jack Vickers, Plaintiffs, v. The OKLAHOMA FIREFIGHTERS PENSION AND RETIREMENT SYSTEM; the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement Board; Paul Gallahar, Wendell Gilliam, Haskill Starbuck, James Smith, John Soos, Larry Barrett, Wyman Dobbs, James Luckett, Francis Campbell, Meredith Lacey and Fred Rucker, in their official capacities only; the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System; the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System; the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement Board; Everette Vanhoesen, Jeffrey Taylor, Jim Wingert, Charles Wingo, Darrell Routh, Chester Hodge, David Been, Jerry Bowen, Joe Johnson, Kenneth Nash and Gary Livingston, in their official capacities only, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied May 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chapel, Wilkinson, Riggs, Abney & Henson by Donald L. Bingham and M.D. Bedingfield, Tulsa, for plaintiffs.

Michael C. Turpen, Atty. Gen., John D. Rothman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for defendants.

Ferguson & Litchfield by E. Paul Ferguson and Thomas E. Prince, Oklahoma City, specially designated counsel for intervenors Governor George Nigh and Senator Marvin B. York.


LAVENDER, Justice:

The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma has certified two questions of law to this Court pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act.1 The statement of facts accompanying the certification of questions indicates that the litigation which has produced the questions has grown out of a challenge brought by plaintiffs as individuals...

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