COMM. ON HUMAN RELATIONS v. BUDD CO.

No. 1518 C.D. 1976.

38 Pa.Commw. 523 (1978)

Commission on Human Relations, City of Philadelphia, Appellant v. The Budd Company, Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Johnston, Assistant City Solicitor, with him Theodore H. Lunine, Deputy City Solicitor, and Sheldon L. Albert, City Solicitor, for appellant.

John C. Wright, Jr., with him Robert M. Goldich, and Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, for appellee.

Argued September 29, 1978, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., DiSALLE and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, JR., November 20, 1978:

This is an appeal by the City of Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (Commission) of a decision by the Court of Common Pleas which reversed the Commission's holding that The Budd Company (Budd) had discriminated against Diane Devennie because of her sex when they fired her on May 24, 1973. We affirm.

The facts of the case are that Devennie was hired in March of 1973 as a journeyman pipefitter having...

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