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Title: Singer v. City of Topeka
Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
Release Date : January 01, 1980
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 63 KB

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The opinion of the court was delivered by The validity of three statutes governing fire and police pensions is at issue in this case. The trial court held all three sections, K.S.A. 1977 Supp. 13-14a02, and K.S.A. 1977 Supp. 12-5004 and 12-5005, as applied to the plaintiffs, unconstitutional under the contract clause of the United States Constitution, art. I, Â§ 10. Appeal was taken directly to this court, as authorized by K.S.A. 1979 Supp. 60-2101(b). The plaintiffs are employees of the defendant City of Topeka. Richard Singer and Alan Warner are employed as firemen; Dennis Perkins and Walter Kuehl are employed as policemen. They brought this declaratory judgment and injunction action against the City of Topeka, challenging the constitutionality of statutory changes in the pension laws. A chronological statement of the stipulated facts, and of the statutory background, is necessary to an understanding of the issues.