SILVIA v. PENNHURST CENTER

No. 3082 C.D. 1980.

63 Pa.Commw. 75 (1981)

Josephine Silvia, Petitioner v. Pennhurst Center, Department of Public Welfare, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

December 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Murphy, with him Lawrence Sager, Sager & Sager, for petitioner.

Marc G. Brecher, Deputy Attorney General, with him John O.J. Shellenberger, Deputy Attorney General of Eastern Region, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondent.

Argued September 18, 1981, before Judges BLATT, CRAIG and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE MacPHAIL, December 4, 1981:

The subject of this appeal is an order of the Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission (Commission) sustaining the decision of the Department of Public Welfare (Department) to discharge Petitioner from her employment as a Mental Retardation Aide II, permanent status, at Pennhurst State School.

Josephine Silvia (Petitioner), had been employed at Pennhurst for the last 25 years. On December 17, 1979, Petitioner...

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