Gorton v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

Petitioners have filed a “complaint in mandamus and petition for review” seeking judicial review of a refusal by the Civil Service Commission (Commission) to investigate and hear petitioners’ grievances concerning their assignment, on an allegedly permament basis, to duties and responsibilities allocable to a position classified higher than that to which they, as Commonwealth employees, were nominally designated.

Respondents have raised preliminary objections seeking dismissal of both the complaint and petition for review on the grounds that petitioners have…