Legal Opinion
Law v. Fisher
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 27, 1979No. 31 T.D. 1978PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge Crumlish, Jr.,
Defendants Gery J. Fisher and James B. Wilson, the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), have filed preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer, inter alia, to a complaint in equity filed by Richard E. Law (Plaintiff), a former PennDOT employee.1
The complaint, which invokes our original jurisdiction, alleges that Plaintiff’s removal from his appointed position as a Highway Maintenance Superintendent Y was the result of a practice of patronage that runs afoul of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. §§1983 and…
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- Bennett v. GravelleDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1971
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