Legal Opinion
Albert Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 25, 1952No. Appeal, 77PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,
Miss Dorothy Albert, a professional employe of the School District of Pittsburgh, taught English at the Taylor-Allderdice High School; she had been a teacher for approximately eighteen years. Dr. Earl A. Dim-mick, Superintendent of Schools of Pittsburgh, preferred charges against her, alleging that she was a Communist; he requested that her contract of employment be terminated for “advocation of or participating in un-American or subversive doctrines” in violation of section 1122 of the Public School Code of 1949, P. L. 30. The Board of Public…
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3Cited by42 opinions
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