Consumers Education & Protective Ass'n v. Schwartz

OPINION

KAUFFMAN, Justice.

Appellants challenge the order of the Commonwealth Court upholding the validity of salary increases for members of the Philadelphia City Council (“Council”) and other elected officials authorized by a 12-0 vote of Council on December 20, 1979.1 Eight Council members voting on Bill No. 2357 (“the Salary Bill”) had been re-elected approximately six weeks earlier in the November, 1979 election for the term in which the pay raise would be effective.2 At issue is the legality of a Salary Bill adopted after the election of the officials whose pay would be increased…