DEAL v. PHILA. CIVIL SERV. COMM.


405 Pa. 136 (1961)

Deal v. Philadelphia Civil Service Commission, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 17, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Stern, Deputy City Solicitor, with him Matthew W. Bullock, Jr. and Francis X. O'Brien, Assistant City Solicitors, and David Berger, City Solicitor, for Civil Service Commission, appellant.

William J. Woolston, with him Samuel Tabbey, and Bernard J. Lemisch, for appellees.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BOK, July 17, 1961:

Appellees are both policemen who were dismissed by the Police Commissioner of Philadelphia for conduct unbecoming an officer. They were also variously indicted for conspiracy to extort and extortion, of which charges they were acquitted at their criminal trial. They were then given a hearing by the Civil Service Commission, and no one contends that this hearing lacked due process or that the Commission lacked jurisdiction...

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