City of Pittsburgh v. Foster

SILVESTRI, Senior Judge.

This is an appeal1 by the City of Pittsburgh (City) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) affirming the decision and order of the City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (Commission) wherein the Commission concluded that City discriminated against Roderick Foster (Foster) in discharging him on the basis of a non-job related handicap, alcoholism, in violation of the Pittsburgh City Code.2

The relevant facts leading to Foster’s discharge by City, as set forth in the Commission’s decision, are as follows:

3. Complainant was…