Not only did it seem entirely appropriate at the time, but it seemed legal too, since the state's Pension Forfeiture Act gives government institutions the authority to revoke pensions for "crimes related to public office or public employment." However, a Pennsylvania court has just ruled unanimously that the revocation of his pension was unlawful, and it needs to be restored. Apparently, Sandusky didn't have a "employer-employee relationship" with the school when these crimes occurred (at least, the ones that were proven in court). He had officially retired from Penn State in 1999, and though he worked on the campus and for the Second Mile charity (which he used to target young boys), he wasn't really an employee for the university. As Judge Dan Pellegrini put it "Mr. Sandusky's performance of services that benefited PSU does not render him a PSU employee."