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CITY OF PHILA. v. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

768 A.2d 291 (2001)

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Appellant, v. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, LODGE NO. 5, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 22, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie L. Franklin-Suber, Stephen E. Atkins, Anne Barden, Mark J. Foley and Andrew J. Rolfes, Philadelphia, for City of Philadelphia.

Thomas H. Kohn, Philadelphia, Thomas W. Jennings and Richard C. McNeill, Philadelphia, for Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5.

Before FLAHERTY C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.

OPINION

CAPPY, Justice.

We granted allocatur in this matter in order to consider whether the award entered by the arbitrator below was proper. For the reasons that follow, we now affirm in part and reverse in part the order of the Commonwealth Court.

In 1953, the City of Philadelphia ("City") created the position of Staff Inspector on the Philadelphia police force. The class specification for this rank, as last revised in 1968, stated that...

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