Commonwealth v. Baker

Dissenting Opinion by

Judge Craig :

Consistent with the rule that our system of justice normally leaves no wrong without a remedy, there is a sound legal and factual basis for the State Civil Service Commission’s award of counsel fees as costs against the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole on account of that agency’s dilatory, obdurate and vexatious conduct in these extended proceedings.

Respondents Baker and Burke, and another parole board employee, Harold M. Shalon, more than five years ago challenged the procedure which the parole *91board initially adopted in making a 1977 promotion to…