Bliss v. Allentown Public Library

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Passage by the Pennsylvania legislature of the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 8541 et seq. (Act), reinstated the immunity of political subdivisions and governmental agencies which had been judicially abrogated in Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Education, 453 Pa. 584, 305 A.2d 877 (1973). The case at bar requires consideration of the scope of the Act and whether it bars suit against Allentown Public Library, herein referred to as the defendant, 1 which plaintiffs assert negligently maintained a statute resulting in injuries to…