Court Opinion

ID: 9734450
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:35:18.110993+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:48.722927
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White, J.,
concurring.
Briefs were filed and this case was at issue prior to the announcement of our decision in Halpin v. Nebraska State Patrolmen’s Retirement System, 211 Neb. 892, 320 N.W.2d 910 (1982). Also at issue in that case was the meaning of the term “final average monthly salary.’’ We held in Halpin that the manner of computing the pension was a contractual right as to persons employed before 1979 and the right to the pension computation was protected against unconstitutional impairment.
We do not have before us, as we did in Halpin, evidence with respect to representations made to prospective firemen and policemen of the City of Lincoln as to future pension benefits after completion of a required period of service, nor do we have before us evidence that such manner of computation of pension benefits was relied on by such employees in the hiring process, or in the negotiating process incident to collective bargaining. What we have done in this case is to merely interpret words. We do not decide the issues raised in Halpin. Those issues remain for another day.