NEWKIRK v. PHILA. SCH. DIST. et al.


437 Pa. 114 (1970)

Newkirk v. Philadelphia School District (et al., Appellant). Thompson v. Philadelphia School District Board of Education (et al., Appellant). Citizens Committee Public Education in Philadelphia v. Philadelphia School District Board of Education (et al., Appellant).

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M.H. Goldstein, with him Goldstein & Barkan, for appellant.

Raymond K. Denworth, Jr., with him Robert Dechert, B. Paul Cotter, Jr., and Dechert, Price & Rhoads, and Drinker, Biddle & Reath, for appellees.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, January 30, 1970:

In September of 1968 the School District of Philadelphia and Local 3, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, entered into a memorandum agreement which provided that their collective bargaining agreement would prohibit the involuntary transfer of any teacher with more than one year of service. Immediately after the terms of the agreement were made public three suits challenging...

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