· 4/23/1999
First Judicial District of Pennsylvania v. Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
Citations
- 727 A.2d 1110
- 556 Pa. 258
- 1999 Pa. LEXIS 1161
- 75 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 45,848
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate complaints made by court employees against their employers
- holding that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission has no jurisdiction to adjudicate complaints against the judicial branch based on the separation of powers doctrine
- “holding that [t]he supreme court has the sole power and the responsibility to supervise the ‘practice, procedure, and the conduct of all courts’ ”
- eoncluding that directing a court to act or not to act in a personnel matter is interference with the operation of the courts which is prohibited by the separation of powers doctrine
- Because of separation of powers doctrine, Human Relations Commission has no jurisdiction to adjudicate any complaints filed against judicial personnel
- Because of separation of powers doctrine, Human Relations Commission has no jurisdiction to adjudicate any complaints filed against judicial personnel
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Saylor
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