CAHOON v. SHELTON

No. 10-2134.

647 F.3d 18 (2011)

Raymond W. CAHOON, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Oscar SHELTON, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Director of Personnel for the City of Warwick, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Heard June 7, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Kolb , with whom Law Offices of William M. Kolb, was on brief, for appellants.

Marc DeSisto , with whom DeSisto Law, was on brief, for appellees.

Before HOWARD, SELYA and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

We are entering an era in which retirement benefits paid to public employees are subject to heightened scrutiny. In this case, a municipality became convinced that former firefighters and police officers who had retired on disability pensions were collecting a particular benefit (full reimbursement of certain medical expenses) without legal warrant. The municipality acted on this conviction and stopped paying the tab. A group of affected retirees...

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