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ALBERT APPEAL

372 Pa. 13 (1952)

Albert Appeal.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 25, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Osmond K. Fraenkel, of New York, with him William Allen Rahill and Thomas D. McBride, for appellant.

Mortimer B. Lesher, Solicitor, with him Niles Anderson, Assistant Solicitor and Oscar G. Peterson, for Board of Public Education of School District of Pittsburgh, appellee.

Robert L. Kunzig, Deputy Attorney General, with him Robert E. Woodside, Attorney General, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, intervenor, appellee.

A. Harry Levitan and Witt and Cammer, of New York, for Teachers Union, Local 555 and Local 556.

Before STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, November 25, 1952:

Miss Dorothy Albert, a professional employe of the School District of Pittsburgh, taught English at the Taylor-Allderdice High School; she had been a teacher for approximately eighteen years. Dr. Earl A. Dimmick, Superintendent of Schools of Pittsburgh, preferred charges against her, alleging that she was a Communist; he requested that her contract of employment be terminated for "advocation of or participating...

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