REILLY v. CITY OF PITTSBURGH


506 Pa. 165 (1984)

484 A.2d 736

Thomas E. REILLY and Leonoor M. Zehner, individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated plaintiffs, Respondents, v. CITY OF PITTSBURGH, a municipal corporation, Petitioner. Lisle A. ZEHNER, individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated plaintiffs, Petitioners, v. TOWNSHIP OF O'HARA, a municipal corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin A. Fein, Deputy City Sol., D.R. Pellegrini, City Sol., Pittsburgh, for City of Pittsburgh.

Lisle A. Zehner, III, Thomas E. Reilly, Pittsburgh, pro se.

Richard Zomnir, John Elash, Pittsburgh, for O'Hara Tp.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.


ORDER OF COURT

PER CURIAM.

The Court accepts plenary jurisdiction, 42 Pa.C.S. § 726, and dismisses the Complaints. The language of the statute clearly demonstrates that the legislative intent in the original Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law, Act of April 13, 1972, No. 62, § 101, 53 P.S. § 1-101 et seq., was to grant the local communities, except as specifically prohibited in § 1-302(a...

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