PRATT v. THORNBURGH

No. 86-1187.

807 F.2d 355 (1986)

Raymond S. PRATT, Appellant v. Richard M. THORNBURGH, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare; Helen B. O'Bannon, and her successor in office as Secretary, Department of Public Welfare; Harry O'Donnell, Office of the Comptroller, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Al Weiss, Director, D.P.W., Office of Employee Disability; Mr. Lescalette, Director, Personnel Transactions, D.P.W., Office of Employee Disability; Bernard Kelly, Claims Representative, D.P.W., Office of Employee Disability; John Doe I, Investigator, D.P.W., Bureau of Investigations; John Doe II, Investigator, D.P.W., Bureau of Investigations; Stanley I. Slipakoff, Esq., Chief of Litigation, Eastern Regional District of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State Civil Service Commission; Mary D. Barnes, Chairman, State Civil Service Commission; Ethel S. Barnett, Commissioner, State Civil Service Commission; Fred E. Bryant, Commissioner, State Civil Service Commission, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State Workmen's Insurance Fund (S.W.I.F.), a corporation created by state statute and a statutorily duly authorized insurer of state employee workers' disability compensation payments and benefits; Mr. Porocca, District Office Manager, S.W.I.F., Philadelphia Office; Edward Marion, Supervisor, Unit III, S.W.I.F., Lackawanna Office; Individual Named "Tess," Claim Rep., S.W.I.F., Philadelphia Office; Mr. Arrison, Claim Rep., S.W.I.F. Philadelphia Office; Dr. Richard Kaplan, P.A., physical examination physician of plaintiff-claimant on 10/21/82; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, D.P.W., Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Development Center, Bensalem, Pa.; Delvore R. Carlise, Executive Director, Y.D.C., Bensalem; Warren Knight, Counselor III, Y.D.C., Bensalem; Marie Birbeck, Business Mgr., Y.D.C., Bensalem; Norman Barbari, Accountant, Y.D.C., Bensalem; Terry M. Feyh, Personnel Asst., Y.D.C., Bensalem.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond S. Pratt, pro se.

LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Atty. Gen., Andrew S. Gordon, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Allen C. Warshaw, Executive Deputy Atty. Gen., Calvin R. Koons, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, for appellees.

Before GIBBONS, WEIS and MARIS, Circuit Judges.


Submitted under Third Circuit Rule 12(6) November 12, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied January 9, 1986.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant, Raymond S. Pratt, was discharged from his position as a youth development counselor at the Bensalem Youth Development Center of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare on June 11, 1982 because he failed to return...

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