Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS)
8 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2000–2019)
8 trusted published court opinions across 8 distinct cases
What public court records show
Public federal court records list Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) as an employer in 8 distinct federal employment cases between 2000 and 2019.
Of the 8 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 4 ended in a ruling for the worker and 4 ended in a ruling for the employer.
The most common claims on record were Failure To Accommodate, Breach Of Contract, and Wrongful Termination.
Cases were filed across 2 states, most often in MS.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 8 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) appears in 8 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Knight v. Public Employees' Retirement System (2012) — Plaintiff Win. This case involved a dispute between an employee named Knight and the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), which manages retirement benefits for government workers. Read the ruling.
Laughlin v. Public Employees' Retirement System (2009) — Defendant Win. This case involved a dispute over disability benefits. Laughlin, a public employee, applied for disability benefits through the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS). The PERS Board of Trustees reviewed Laughlin's application and decided to deny the benefits. Read the ruling.
Public Employees' Retirement System v. Finklea (2004) — Plaintiff Win. Ruby Finklea, an employee covered by Mississippi's Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), applied for disability benefits but was denied by the PERS Board. Finklea challenged this decision, claiming she was entitled to the benefits due to her disability. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Failure to Accommodate (4 of 8), Breach of Contract (2 of 8), Wrongful Termination. Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Failure to Accommodate, Breach of Contract and Wrongful Termination.
Published opinions span Mississippi (1), Oregon (1). Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. Mississippi rulings and Oregon rulings.
These published opinions sit within the public sector, where due-process protections, First Amendment retaliation, and union-related (NLRA / state PERB) claims apply.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
8 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
What do these stages mean?
- Appeal
- A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
Published federal-court opinions only — most workplace disputes are resolved privately. This is not anyone’s odds, and not a finding that any employer violated the law.
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Claim Types
What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.