Welch v. Palka

I join in the Court’s Order to the extent that it affirms the Commonwealth Court’s dismissal with prejudice of the bulk of appellant’s pleas for relief. I respectfully disagree, however, with the decision to vacate the Commonwealth Court’s dismissal of appellant’s claim seeking appellees’ removal from their positions as law enforcement or investigative officers under the Wiretap Act (“the Act”) at 18 Pa.C.S. § 5726.

Appellant, at present an inmate at SCI-Cresson, filed a pro se “Petition for Review in the Style of Action for Removal from Office” in the Commonwealth Court in May 2008, alleging…