Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board

Did the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania err and did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in not granting Allocatur when the Public-School Employees’ Retirement Board forfeited Mr. Como’s entire pension of approximately 44 years, pursuant to 43 P.S. 1312 and 1313, due to his criminal convictions for theft (18 Pa. C.S.A. 3927) that occurred in 2012 and 2013, for which he was convicted in 2018, when he was the Superintendent of the Coatesville Area School District during the years of 2005 through 2013? Should the remainder of Mr. Como’s pension beginning in 1969 through 2005, when he worked at different schools as a coach, teacher, assistant principal, and principal and where there was no misconduct for these 34 years, be given to him since his pension was validly earned and had nothing to do with this misconduct in 2012 and 2013 when he was Superintendent and the Superintendent was a different position since he no longer had civil service protection?

Did the Commonwealth Court and the State Retirement Board err by adopting a contractual analysis indicating that the entire pension should be forfeited when this was extremely excessive and had no relationship to the actual damages?

Did this forfeiture violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by forfeiting Mr. Como’s pension of 34 years when he was a coach, teacher, assistant principal and principal, when