McCormick v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Michael McCormick appeals from a decision of the State Civil Service Commission, which removed McCormick from his civil service job with the Altoona Housing Authority because he had engaged in prohibited political activity. We must decide whether the Civil Service Act prohibition of political activity1 ap*499plies to housing authority employees and whether McCormick’s unawareness of that prohibition precludes the commission from removing him for its violation.

McCormick began his employment with the housing authority as comptroller before the 1975 amendment to the Housing…