Pinto v. State Civil Service Commission

OPINION

Justice BAER.

We granted allowance of appeal in this case to consider whether Appellant Roy C. Pinto, while on a leave of absence from his position as a Corrections Officer l(CO) to serve a term as Vice President of the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (Association),1 to which he was elected by *313the membership, was subject to the political activity prohibition of the Civil Service Act, 71 P.S. § 741.905b (hereinafter CSA § 905b),2 and, if so, whether his transmission in his official capacity of a letter informing then-gubernatorial candidate Edward Rendell of the…