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ACTION COALITION ETC. v. ALLEGHENY, ETC.

493 Pa. 302 (1981)

426 A.2d 560

ACTION COALITION OF ELDERS, a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation et al., Petitioners-Appellees, v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY INSTITUTION DISTRICT et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Frank S. BEAL, as Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Third Party Respondent-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. McLean, County Sol., E.J. Strassburger, Asst. County Sol., Howard Louick, Pittsburgh, for respondents-appellants.

Dennis Revak, Neighborhood Legal Services Ass'n, Pittsburgh, for Action Coalition of Elders.

Marlene W. Jackson, Deputy Atty. Gen., for third party respondent-appellee.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION

FLAHERTY, Justice.

The sole issue for determination in this case is whether original jurisdiction of this action for declaratory relief lies in the Commonwealth Court or in the Court of Common Pleas.

The complex procedural history of this case is as follows. In early 1977, Action Coalition of Elders, a non-profit corporation organized to advance the interests of the aged, filed a class action which sought declaratory relief in the Court of...

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