Lower Merion Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Number Twenty-Eight v. Township of Lower Merion

ORDER

The Court being evenly divided, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is affirmed.

ZAPPALA, J., files an Opinion in Support of Affirmance in Part and Reversal in Part in which FLAHERTY, J., joins. NIX, C.J., concurs in the proposed mandate of the Opinion in Support of Affirmance in Part and Reversal in Part. LARSEN, J., files an Opinion in Support of Reversal in which HUTCHINSON and PAPADAKOS, JJ., join. McDERMOTT, j., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.

OPINION IN SUPPORT OF AFFIRMANCE IN PART AND REVERSAL IN PART

ZAPPALA, Justice.

Before us is an appeal from an…