Court Opinion

ID: 9650238
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:27:29.755079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:19.158165
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*391POMEROY, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
Although I join in the majority’s reversal of the order of the Commonwealth Court as to the individual defendants in this case, see Freach v. Commonwealth, 471 Pa. 558, 567-69, 370 A.2d 1163 (1977), I remain of the view that this Court does not have the power to abolish sovereign immunity, see Freach, supra, 471 Pa. at 565-67, 370 A.2d 1167-68; Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways, 479 Pa. 384, 409, 388 A.2d 709, 721 (1978) (Pomeroy, J., dissenting), and would therefore affirm the order of the Commonwealth Court as to the appellee Philadelphia State Hospital.
EAGEN, C. J., and O’BRIEN, J., join in this opinion.