Curley v. Wetzel

I concur in the mandate of affirmance.

The Court recognizes that there is obviously something amiss in the published Commonwealth Court opinion below, but takes a half-measure to correct it by adding the following statement to its per cu-riam affirmance: “By this Order, our Court does not embrace the Commonwealth Court’s view that this action sounds in mandamus or that a six-month statute of limitations applies to actions in mandamus in this context.”

The Court does not say why it takes this unusual measure. Perhaps it reflects the Court’s effort to informally adopt a version of a…