Case Name: David James OLMSTEAD, Appellee, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, BUREAU OF DRIVER LICENSING, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1998-04-23
Citations: 707 A.2d 1144
Docket Number: 
Parties: David James OLMSTEAD, Appellee, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, BUREAU OF DRIVER LICENSING, Appellant.
Judges: Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO and NEWMAN, JJ.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 707
Pages: 1144–1144

Head Matter:
David James OLMSTEAD, Appellee, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, BUREAU OF DRIVER LICENSING, Appellant.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued Oct. 22, 1997.
Decided April 23, 1998.
Timothy P. Wile, Harold H. Cramer, Andrew S. Gordon, Paul A. Tufano, Harrisburg, for appellant.
Daniel J. Barrett, Athens, for appellee.
Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO and NEWMAN, JJ.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM:
AND NOW, this 23rd day of April, 1998, we AFFIRM the Order of the Commonwealth Court on the basis of our Opinion in Sullivan v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing, — Pa. -, — A.2d -, 1998 WL 79068 [No. 0023 W.D. Appeal Docket 1997], and without regard to the issue of whether the New York offense of Driving While Ability Impaired, N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 1192(1), is substantially similar to the Pennsylvania offense of Driving Under the Influence, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3731(a)(1), for purposes of imposing a driver's license suspension pursuant to the Driver License Compact of 1961.