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Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit, No. 2020 CA 0881 · judgment March 25, 2021


Certiorari denied · January 10, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System (“LASERS”) violate the Equal Protection Clause by defining earned compensation as excluding supplemental pay for purposes of calculating retirement benefits, where supplemental pay is included in the definition of earned compensation for state judges, law enforcement officers, teachers, and firefighters, thus treating them more favorably than those state employees other than judges, who are forced by law to participate in LASERS?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Scott D. Wilson
Scott D. Wilson, A Professional Law Corporation

For respondent
R. Stephen Stark
La. State Employees' Retirement System

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 10 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 22 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
  3. Dec 10 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System to respond filed.
  4. Nov 17 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 20, 2021)