Court Opinion

ID: 9386087
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-04-11 14:07:47.176529+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:04.405697
License: Public Domain

IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

William L. Herold                       :
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      v.                                :
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University of Pittsburgh - of           :
Commonwealth System of                  :
Higher Education                        :
and 3M Company; Abb Motors              :
and Mechanical, Inc. f/k/a Baldor       :
Electric Company; Allied Glove          :
Corporation; A.O. Smith Corporation;    :
Armstrong International, Inc.; Aurora   :
Pump Company; Baltimore Aircoil         :
Company, Inc.; Beazer East, Inc.        :
Individually and as Successor to        :
Koppers Company, Inc., and              :
Successor-in Interest to Thiem          :
Corporation and Universal               :
Refractories Company; BMI               :
Refractor Services Inc.; Individually   :
and as Successor-in-Interest to         :
Premier Refractories, Inc., f/k/a       :
Adience, Inc., Successor-in-Interest    :
to Adience Company, LP, as              :
Successor to BMI, Inc.;                 :
Burnham Boiler Corporation              :
n/d/b/a Burnham Commercial;             :
Bryan Steam, LLC; Carrier               :
Corporation; CBS Corporation, a         :
Delaware Corporation, f/k/a Viacom      :
Inc. Successor by Merger to CBS         :
Corporation, a Pennsylvania             :
Corporation, f/k/a Westinghouse         :
Electric Corporation and Westinghouse   :
Air Brake Company; Cleaver Brooks,      :
Inc., f/k/a Aqua-Chem, Inc. d/b/a       :
Cleaver Brooks Division; Crane Co.;     :
Delval Equipment Corporation,           :
Dezurik, Inc.; Donald McKay Smith,    :
Inc.; Dunham-Bush, Inc.; E.E.         :
Zimmerman Company; Eaton              :
Corporation in its own right and as   :
successor to Cutler-Hammer,           :
Incorporated; Eichleay Corporation;   :
Ferro Engineering division of on      :
Marine Services Company, LLC,         :
f/k/a Oglebay Norton Company;         :
Flowserve; US, Inc., Individually     :
and as Successor to Byron             :
Jackson Pumps, FlowserveGestra,       :
Durametallic Corp., Aldrich Pumps;    :
Cameron Pumps; Vogt Valves;           :
Wilson-Synder Centrifugal Pump;       :
and Rockwell Valves; FMC              :
Corporation, Individually and as      :
Successor-in-Interest to Peerless     :
Pump Company, Sterling Fluid          :
System, Inc. and former subsidiary    :
Crosby Valve, Inc.; Foseco, Inc.;     :
Foster Wheeler Corporation;           :
Gardner Denver, Inc.; General         :
Electric Company; Grinnell LLC;       :
Goulds Pumps, LLC; Goulds             :
Pumps, LLC; Grinnell LLC; Goulds      :
Pumps, LLC; I.U. North America,       :
Inc.; America, Inc. as Successor-     :
by-merger to the Garp Company,        :
f/k/a The Gage Company, f/k/a         :
Pittsburg Gage and Supply             :
Company; IMO Industries, Inc.,        :
f/k/a Transamerican DeLaval, Inc.,    :
f/k/a DeLaval Turbin, Inc. DeLaval    :
Turbin, Inc., DeLaval Turbin, Inc.,   :
DeValco Corporation; Ingersoll-Rand   :
Company; Insul Company, Inc.; ITT     :
Industries, Individually and as       :
Successor-in Interest to Bell &       :
Gossett Domestic Pump; J.H. France    :
Refractories Company; Kruman           :
Equipment Company;                     :
Mallinckrodt US LLC, in its own        :
right and as Successor-in-interest     :
to Imcera Group, Inc., and             :
International Group, Inc., and         :
International Minerals and             :
Chemical Corporation, and as           :
Successor-in-Interest to E.J.          :
Lavino; Mine Safety Appliances         :
Company, LLC as Successor-in-          :
Interest by Merger with Mine Safety    :
Appliances Company; Minnotte           :
Contracting Corporation; M.S.          :
Jacobs & Associates, Inc.; Nagle       :
Pumps, Inc. Peerless Industries,       :
Inc.; Power Piping Company; Riley      :
Power Inc.; Safety First Industries,   :
Inc., in its own right and as          :
Successor-in-Interest to               :
Safety-First Supply, Inc.;             :
Schneider Electric USA, Inc.           :
f/k/a Square D Company, in             :
its own right and as successor         :
to The Electric Controller and         :
Manufacturing (EC&M);                  :
Spirax Sarco, Inc.; SPX                :
Cooling Technologies, Inc.,            :
f/k/a Marley Cooling Technologies      :
Inc., f/k/a The Marley Cooling         :
Company; TACO, Inc.                    :
f/k/a Taco Heaters,                    :
Inc.; The Goodyear Tire                :
& Rubber Company;                      :
The Gordon-Rupp Company;               :
The H.B. Smith Company, Inc.;          :
Trane U.S. Inc., Successor-by-         :
Merger to American Standard, Inc.,     :
Union Carbride Corporation;            :
United States Steel Corporation;       :
Warren Pumps LLC; Weil-                    :
McLain Company, Inc.; York                 :
International Corporation;                 :
and Zurn Industries, LLC                   :
f/k/a Zurn Industries, Inc.                :
a/k/a Erie City Iron Works                 :

Appeal of: University of                   :     No. 998 C.D. 2021
Pittsburgh - of the                        :
Commonwealth System                        :
of Higher Education                        :

PER CURIAM                             ORDER

            NOW, April 11, 2023, having considered Appellant’s application for

reargument and Appellees’ answer in response thereto, the application is DENIED.