Capital City Lodge No. 12 v. City of Harrisburg

PELLEGRINI, Judge.

Capital City Lodge No. 12, Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County, which denied the FOP’s Motion for Peremptory Judgment in Mandamus and sustained the City of Harrisburg’s (City) and the Civil Service Board’s (Board) preliminary objections.

On November 16, 1981, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) filed a complaint against the City, alleging that the City, in its employment practices within the police department, was engaged in patterns or practices which discriminated on the basis of race and sex with…