Kentucky Retirement Systems v. EEOC

Kentucky Retirement Systems v. EEOC
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 9, 2008 Decided June 19, 2008
Full case name	Kentucky Retirement Systems, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Docket no.	06-1037
Citations	554 U.S. 135 (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Roberts, Stevens Souter and Thomas
Dissent	Kennedy, joined by Scalia, Ginsburg and Alito

Kentucky Retirement Systems v. EEOC, 554 U.S. 135 (2008) is a United States Supreme Court case that ruled Kentucky's retirement system does not amount to age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act when granting pensions to disabled persons who had not yet reached the permitted retirement age of 55.^[1]

Associate Justice Stephen Breyer explained in the majority opinion that "where an employer treats employees differently based on their pension status and even if the pension status does depend on age, the plaintiff still has to show that that age made a difference rather than just a pension status, that it was actually motivated this discrimination or there's a reason for it that was based upon age and not pension status."^[1]

References

1. Breyer, Justice. "Kentucky Retirement Systems v. EEOC - Judgement". Oyez Project. Retrieved January 3, 2021.