Arneson v. Board of Trustees of Employees' Retirement System

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• any action taken beyond the scope of the powers that have been expressly or impliedly conferred upon a municipality is ultra vires
• City of Columbus v. Muscogee Mfg. Co., 165 Ga. 259(1), 140 S.E. 860 (1927)
• citizens’ standing to bring suit challenging government action is “dependent upon the correctness of their contention that the questioned actions are ultra vires”
• citizens have right to complain that acts of officials of state employees' retirement system are ultra vires
• “The duties of the retirement system include the assessment and calculation of entitlements. Even if the computation here was in error, nevertheless, it was not ultra vires.”
• taxpayer has standing to challenge public body’s disposition of public funds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).