Court Opinion

ID: 6268394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 01:04:04.242689+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:52.652938
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ORDER

PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 3rd day of September, 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, rephrased for clarity, are:
(1) Whether Baldwin v. City of Philadelphia, 99 Pa. 164, 1881 WL 13869 (1881), which held Pa. Const, art. III, § 13, now § 27, did not apply to a municipal ordinance that changed a public officer’s compensation mid-term, should be reversed.
(2) Whether Pa. Const, art. III, § 27 prohibits mid-term compensation changes for elected municipal officers by means of a municipal ordinance.