MILLER v. DEPT. OF TRANS.

No. 1582 C.D. 1980.

59 Pa.Commw. 446 (1981)

Joan Miller, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

June 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Morgan, for petitioner.

Louis G. Cocheres, Assistant Attorney General, with him Ward T. Williams, Chief Counsel, and Harvey Bartle, III, Attorney General, for respondent.

Argued April 9, 1981, before Judges MENCER, CRAIG and PALLADINO, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, June 3, 1981:

Petitioner Joan Miller, an employee of the Department of Transportation, has appealed from an order of the Department of Transportation sustaining her demotion by the department from Clerical Supervisor II to Clerk-typist I.

Miller charges she was demoted for political reasons, thus violating her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights under Branti v. Finkel,<...

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