Schweitzer v. Rockwell International

JOHNSON, Judge:

This is an appeal from the summary judgment entered in favor of defendant Rockwell International (Rockwell) on July 11, 1989. We decide that the withdrawal of a complaint from the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission within less than a year does not constitute exhaustion of a complainant’s statutory remedy, but that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act does not extinguish common law causes of action arising out of the same underlying acts which support a discrimination claim derived from the Act. Therefore we affirm in part and reverse in part.

In November of 1983,…