Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission v. School District

OPINION

POMEROY, Justice.

These two cases have been briefed and argued separately. They involve nonetheless a common problem — the integration of the public schools in the major metropolitan centers of this Commonwealth; they have a common point of origin — the August 17, 1972 decision of the Commonwealth Court in the case entitled Philadelphia School District v. Human Relations Commission, 6 Pa.Cmwlth. 281, 294 A.2d 410 (1972); and they present certain legal questions in common. For those reasons, they are treated here in a single opinion.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

a. The Commission’s Amended Final…