Faust v. Commonwealth

SOKOLOVE, J.,

Plaintiffs have appealed to the Commonwealth Court from our order granting the preliminary objections of defendant Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and granting the motion for judgment on the pleadings of the remaining 10 individual defendants.

Pursuant to our further order, plaintiffs have filed a statement of matters complained of on appeal, consisting of the following:

“(1) The trial court erred in deciding that the State of Pennsylvania is not a person within the meaning of section 1983 of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1871.

“(2) The trial court erred in deciding as a matter of…