MASSEY v. McGRATH

No. 91-3002.

965 F.2d 678 (1992)

John MASSEY, Homer B. Sewell, Eunice Lieurance, Donald L. Esslinger, Kendall E. Anderson, Richard Atkinson, Donald W. Bailey, David E. Baker, Betty Ann Barnett, Bruce E. Beck, Linda S. Benedict, Roger Bennett, Robert J. Bevins, Albert Tice Black, Roy Blassingame, Rebecca Blocker, Linda Glumenberg, Kenneth A. Bolte, Gerald A. Boschert, Martha M. Bowen, Paul Brautigam, John Brumett, Daryl D. Buchholz, William L. Buehler, R. Beth Burke, Charles E. Campbell, Jerry D. Carpenter, Roy J. Carter, Charles Franklin Chaney, Robert W. Chapple, Donna R. Chilton, Janet A. Clark, Richard W. Clark, Donna Clavin, Beverly Coberly, Eldon Cole, Fred E. Conner, James B. Cook, M. Mike Cooper, Dale D. Cox, Leo L. Cram, Palma K. Crass, Bill Crews, Eber F. Cude, John Robert Cusick, Fred Duane Dailey, Don R. Day, Roberta Decocq, Janet Haney Delcour, Archie L. Devore, Henry F. Dicarlo, Marvin C. Dobbs, Patrice G. Dollar, Mary Kathryn Barham Dothage, Lyle V. Ellis, Hildegard G. Etzkorn, Wanda Eubank, Gaylon Fanning, Phyllis Ann Flanigan, Nancy F. Flood, Owen A. Fox, Jim Freeman, Barbara Froke, Charles D. Fulhage, Benjamin H. Gallup, Charles T. Gamble, Sharon K. Gann, Marion E. Gentry, Allyn Scott Graham, Louis G. Gray, Doris J. Greig, Lowell D. Hagerman, Larry A. Hale, Stacy Hambelton, Vance Hambelton, Sherron J. Hancock, Thomas L. Hansen, Lula B. Harper, Karl L. Hartung, Glenda J. Hawkins, Dorothy Heieie, Norlin A. Hein, Joanne Heisler, Robert L. Heitmeyer, Marian Hess, Rodney O. Hexem, Ronald W. Higginbotham, Kermit J. Hildahl, John A. Hoehne, Gary D. Hoette, Richard G. Hoormann, Arlon L. Horn, Sharen Hunt, Randall N. Humphrey, Frank E. James, Richard Janes, Lehman Jennings, Rebecca Ann Jennings, Martin Johns, Lenard Ray Johnson, Flernoy G. Jones, Philip L. Kelley, Fannie Johnson-Kendrick, James E. Kennel, Albert L. Kennett, Paula Kennish, Scott Collin Killpack, Kate King, Janet Lee Kline, Joseph Koenen, Clemons A. Koenig, Lois M. Laster, P. Jill Leckrone, Frank N. Letzkus, David L. Lindell, E. Pauline Lindsey, Donald W. Littrell, Wilma Jean Lower, Karen Lee Loyd, Robert F. Lukowski, Beryl V. Lycan, Harlan C. Lynn, John Martin, Jack D. McCall, Ina Lynn McClain, George W. McCollum, Cynde Ann McDonald, Robert McGill, Joe G. McVeigh, Nancy Elkins Mense, Karma J. Metzgar, Patricia D. Miller, Robert G. Miller, Susan Mills, Harry Minor, Dennis Lee Minzes, Donald Neil Mobley, Gaylord Moore, John F. Morehead, Byron D. Morrison, Jeanne Morrison, C.R. Motsinger, Ralph E. Munson, Raymond A. Nabors, Donald E. Null, Catherine J. Osterling, Jesse Claude Owsley, Einar W. Palm, Beverly J. Pfeiffer, Dan L. Pherigo, Robert A. Pierce, II, Kenneth E. Pigg, Ruth Ann Pirch, Ronald L. Plain, Stanley L. Ponce, Wayne R. Prewitt, James R. Proskocil, Phillip A. Pulley, John C. Rea, David B. Quarles, Tony R. Rickard, Rex E. Ricketts, Wendell Roberts, O.L. Robertson, Charles Rosenkrans, Richard K. Rudel, Walter R. Rudolph, Charles M. St. Clair, Jim C. Sawyer, Dale H. Schnarre, Mary Siebert Schroepfer, Robert A. Schultheis, Homer B. Sewell, Victoria C. Shade, Wayne Shannon, Charles W. Shay, Harold S. Smith, Patricia Louise Snodgrass, Barry J. Steevens, Raymond I. Steffens, Mark A. Stewart, Ronald E. Stoller, Harold Storck, Richard D. Stroade, Ross L. Swofford, Paul R. Taylor, Robert E. Taylor, James R. Teegarden, John J.A. Tharp, James O. Thompson, Jack D. Timmons, Jamie H. Tomek, Sharon Tubbs, Elbert F. Turner, Linda Jo Turner, Gary Varner, Cathy Dierking Venters, T. Jean Ward, Glenn Weaver, Phillip M. Weedin, Jack Carl West, Debby Whiston, Frank Lynn Wideman, Roger Wilcoxson, Beverly A. Wiles, Abner W. Womack, Ilene P. Workman, J. Allen Wrather, Floyd E. Wright, Ronald D. Young, Melvin J. Zielinski, Gerald J. Zumbrunnen, Appellants, v. C. Peter McGRATH, Dr., Curators of the University of Missuri, Eva Louise Frazer, Vice President, UM Board of Curators, Sam B. Cook, Member, UM Board of Curators, Fred S. Kummer, Member, UM Board of Curators, John P. Lichtenegger, Member, UM Board of Curators, Peter H. Raven, Member, UM Board of Curators, James C. Sterling, Member, UM Board of Curators, Webb R. Gilmore, Member, UM Board of Curators, Cynthia B. Thompson, Member, UM Board of Curators and as Administrator of the University Retirement System, James McHugh, Member, UM Board of Curators and as Administrator of the University Retirement System, Paul Matteucci, Member, UM Board of Curators and as Administrator of the University Retirement System, John Cozad, Member, UM Board of Curators and as Administrator of the University Retirement System, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Brunstrum, Jefferson City, Mo., argued (Roger G. Brown and R.L. Veit, appeared on the brief), for appellants.

William F. Arnet, Columbia, Mo., argued (Nancie D. Aulgur and Marvin E. Wright, appeared on the brief), for appellees.

Before WOLLMAN and MAGILL, Circuit Judges, and LONGSTAFF, District Judge.


WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from the district court's1 order denying their claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988. We affirm.

I.

The University of Missouri operates a retirement plan known as the University of Missouri Retirement Disability and Death Benefit Plan (URS). The URS was established by the Board of Curators of the University in 1958. It is a noncontributory system, with the...

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