Court Opinion

ID: 2820987
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-07-28 19:25:21.498761+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:11:33.560927
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                              MIDDLE DISTRICT

GEORGE JOHNSON,               : No. 930 MAL 2014
                              :
               Respondent     :
                              : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the
                              : Order of the Commonwealth Court
          v.                  :
                              :
                              :
LANSDALE BOROUGH AND LANSDALE :
BOROUGH CIVIL SERVICE         :
COMMISSION,                   :
                              :
               Petitioners    :

                                        ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 28th day of July, 2015, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is

GRANTED, LIMITED to the following issues, as stated by Petitioner:

      a.     Whether the Commonwealth Court committed reversible error by holding
             that a common pleas court’s standard of review of a civil service
             commission adjudication is de novo, where a common pleas court takes
             no additional evidence on appeal and limits itself to the record before the
             commission?

      b.     Whether the Commonwealth Court committed reversible error by holding
             that a common pleas court may modify a penalty imposed by a
             municipality, where there is no evidence whatsoever that the penalty was
             arbitrary, capricious, or discriminatory?

In all other respects, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.