Case Name: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF the COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION v. TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 4531, AFL-CIO, et al. Appeal of TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 4531, AFL-CIO
Court: Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1991-05-02
Citations: 139 Pa. Commw. 441
Docket Number: No. 2052 C.D. 1990
Parties: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY—OF the COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION v. TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 4531, AFL-CIO, et al. Appeal of TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 4531, AFL-CIO.
Judges: Before CRAIG, President Judge, and DOYLE, COLINS, PALLADINO, McGINLEY, SMITH and PELLEGRINI, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Reports
Volume: 139
Pages: 441–453

Head Matter:
591 A.2d 1140
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY—OF the COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION v. TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 4531, AFL-CIO, et al. Appeal of TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 4531, AFL-CIO.
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued March 6, 1991.
Decided May 2, 1991.
Reargument Denied July 10, 1991.
Alaine S. Williams, Walter, Willig, Williams & Davidson, Philadelphia, for appellants.
John B. Langel, with him, Maureen M. Rayborn, Suzanne E. Turner, and James H. Bocchinfuso, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, for appellee.
Before CRAIG, President Judge, and DOYLE, COLINS, PALLADINO, McGINLEY, SMITH and PELLEGRINI, JJ.

Opinion:
CRAIG, President Judge.
In this appeal, the Temple Association of University Professionals raises issues that relate to a preliminary injunction the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County granted Temple University, that ordered Temple's striking professional employees back to work. The trial court and this court denied the Association's request for a supersede-as, 135 Pa.Cmwlth. 426, 582 A.2d 63, and this appeal followed.
However, because the parties indicated at oral argument that the cause of the dispute, the strike of the Association's members, has ended, we conclude that no controversy now exists. Hence, we will dismiss the appeal as moot.
ORDER .
Now, May 2, 1991, upon notification at oral argument by the parties in this case, that the strike which gave rise to this dispute has ended, the appeal of the Temple Association of University Professionals from the decision of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, granting Temple University's request for a preliminary injunction ordering striking Association members back to work, is dismissed as moot.
COLINS, J., files a concurring opinion.
DOYLE, J., files a dissenting opinion.