Court Opinion

ID: 6360862
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-24 23:35:41.579144+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:49:41.038894
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion by
Judge Mencer:
I respectfully dissent. The complaint in this case alleged a violation by The Pittsburgh Press Company (appellant) of Section 8(j) of the City of Pittsburgh’s Human Relations Ordinance. Section 8(j) makes it an unlawful employment practice “to aid, incite, compel, coerce or participate in the doing of any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice or to obstruct or prevent any person from enforcing or complying with the provisions of this ordinance, or any rule, regulation or order of the Commission, or to attempt directly or indirectly to commit any act declared by this ordinance to be an unlawful employment practice.”
*477Tbe complaint does not allege any violation by anyone else. It is simply impossible for the appellant to be guilty of aiding another in the violation of the ordinance when no violation is even alleged and in fact no attempt was made to prove such a violation. It is fundamental that one cannot aid that which did not occur.
I must conclude that due process clearly requires that, without alleging or proving a violation of the ordinance by an employer who was aided by appellant, the complaint is invalid on its face and should be dismissed.