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· 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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