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PUBLIC EMP. RETIREMENT SYSTEM v. PORTER

No. 1999-SA-01058-SCT.

763 So.2d 845 (2000)

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM v. Lola PORTER.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 24, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Margaret Bowers, Jackson, Attorney for Appellant.

Frank J. Campbell, Vicksburg, Attorney for Appellee.

BEFORE PRATHER, C.J., SMITH AND WALLER, JJ.

PRATHER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1. The Court is called upon to determine the constitutionality of a statute which mandates that the pre-retirement death benefits of a Mississippi Public Employees' Retirement System (hereinafter PERS) member shall go to the member's surviving spouse, regardless of whom the member has duly designated as his or her beneficiary.

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