Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia 427 U.S. 307 (1976) Murgia was a policeman in Massachusetts. When he turned 50 he was involuntarily retired, per Massachusetts law. Murgia claimed to be in great shape and wanted to continue being a policeman. Massachusetts argued that they had a good reason for having a mandatory retirement age, namely the physical requirements of the job were probably too much for old people. Murgia sued, claiming that the mandatory retirement was age discrimination, and was therefore an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The US Supreme Court found the Massachusetts law to be constitutional. The US Supreme Court found that the proper level of judicial review for age discrimination claims was rational basis. The Court found that old people were not a suspect class, and being a policeman was not a fundamental right. The Court found that Massachusetts had a rational basis for preventing old people from working in jobs with high physical requirements.