Court Opinion

ID: 9709713
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 03:53:23.813588+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:18:40.319080
License: Public Domain

McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
The legislature has designated the Commonwealth Court as the appropriate appellate court from orders of the Civil Service Commission; and has accorded that court all the ancillary and auxiliary powers necessary to carry out its functions. In this case appellee’s petition for enforcement was merely a means by which the Commonwealth Court was able to exercise one of those powers. As noted by the majority, “orders which are pendent to actions in the Commonwealth Court’s appellate jurisdiction, or ancillary to it, are not ‘originally commenced’ in Commonwealth Court.” Such orders relate to matters commenced elsewhere, on a record made elsewhere, and thus were not intended within the language of section 723, 42 Pa.C.S. § 723.
As I understand the majority opinion, this is the extent of its holding, and to that extent, I join.