Sever v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Palladino,

This action, filed by petitioner Francis Alan Sever and addressed to our original jurisdiction 1 , seeks a writ of mandamus compelling the Commonwealth respondents to approve petitioners applications for supplementary employment or, in the alternative, to allow petitioner to be compensated for the services he performed between January 4, 1985 and January 6, 1986. The Commonwealth respondents include: the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources (DER), the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Office of Administration (OA), and Charles T. Sciotto,…