Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission v. Ammon K. Graybill, Jr., Inc., Real Estate

OPINION OF THE COURT

POMEROY, Justice.

The question presented in this appeal is whether an intended agreement between lawyers for the appellant Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (the “Commission” or the “PHRC”) and the appellee corporation, read into the record by the attorney for appellant, without objection, at a hearing before a panel of the Commission became a final, enforceable consent decree upon subsequent ratification by the PHRC, but in the absence of any showing of subsequent approval by the appellee.

The following history of the case is relevant. On February 17, 1972, two…