PA. FEDERATION OF TEACHERS v. SCH. DIST.


506 Pa. 196 (1984)

484 A.2d 751

The PENNSYLVANIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, et al., Appellees, v. The SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Appellants. PENNSYLVANIA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, et al., Appellees-Cross Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, et al., Appellants-Cross Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Kutz, Allen C. Warsaw, Deputy Attys. Gen., for Com. and School Dist. of Philadelphia.

Elliott Strokoff, Harrisburg, for Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers and Ass'n of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties.

Anthony D. Newman, Thomas W. Scott, Harrisburg, for Pennsylvania State Educ. Ass'n.

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


OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

These are cross-appeals1 from an order of the Commonwealth Court declaring section 2 of Act 31 of 1983 to be unconstitutional as an impairment of contract in violation of Article I, section 17 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, 472 A.2d 749.2 The order of the Commonwealth Court permanently enjoined the enforcement of Act 31 insofar as it increased the "basic contribution...

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