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D.E.S. v. COM., DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE

130 Pa.Commw. 37 (1989)

566 A.2d 1261

D.E.S., Petitioner, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 29, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Johnson, for petitioner.

Kathleen Harrington, Asst. Counsel, for respondent.

Before COLINS and McGINLEY, JJ., and NARICK, Senior Judge.

McGINLEY, Judge.

This is an appeal by D.E.S. (Petitioner) from an order of the Office of Hearings and Appeals (O.H.A.) which denied Petitioner's request for attorneys' fees and expenses pursuant to the Act of December 13, 1982 (Costs Act), P.L. 1127, 71 P.S. §§ 2031-2035 (Supp.1989).1 We affirm.

There is no dispute as to the following facts. On May 8, 1986, Petitioner struck his eleven year-old daughter, L.S., after she...

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