Conley v. City of Pittsburgh

CRAIG, Judge.

The question in this case is whether a trial court has equity jurisdiction in a dispute between the City of Pittsburgh and two city firefighters, Conley and Trempus, over the city’s practice of assigning the duties of newly created civil service positions to employees in lower positions, working out of grade, rather than filling the positions as provided in the civil service laws.

Conley and Trempus have appealed to this court after the trial court sustained the city’s preliminary objections to the trial court’s jurisdiction.

This court decided a related issue in Fire Fighters…