Court Opinion

ID: 9728197
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:01:46.308771+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:46.738364
License: Public Domain

CAVANAUGH, Judge,
concurring:
I join in every respect with the majority disposition by Judge Hudock. I write separately only to point out what I consider a necessary consequence of the procedural posture in which this ease is presented before our court en banc. It is, of course, basic to our en banc procedures that an appeal en banc is, in fact, a de novo appeal which considers all of the issues raised by appellant or cross-appellant. In this case, en banc review was sought solely on the issue of the application of the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law and the majority opinion properly has limited its consideration to that issue. By so doing, appellant has abandoned or waived any present or future consideration of other issues initially raised in this appeal which were some five in number.