FORD MOTOR CO. v. COM., DEPT. OF STATE


510 Pa. 91 (1986)

507 A.2d 49

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Appellee, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF STATE; State Board of Vehicle Manufacturers, Dealers and Salespersons; and Robert J. Habeeb, Chairman, State Board of Vehicle Manufacturers, Dealers and Salespersons, Appellant, and McCrackin-Sturman Ford, Inc., Appellant-Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Kelly, Jr., Marybeth S. Christiansen, Harrisburg, for Ford Motor Co.

Joyce McKeever, Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Pittsburgh, Vincent J. Grogan, Anthony V. Cortese, Pittsburgh, for McCrackin-Sturman Ford, Inc., intervenor.

Jerome T. Foerster, Andrew S. Gordon, Allen C. Warshaw, Office of the Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, for State Bd. of Vehicle Mfrs., Dealers and Salespersons.

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


OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice.

At issue in this appeal is an order of Commonwealth Court that: (1) grants the application for summary relief of the appellee, Ford Motor Company (Ford), by directing the State Board of Vehicle Manufacturers, Dealers and Salespersons (Board) to issue to Ford such permits as are necessary to establish a new dealership in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area, and (2) denies the petition for leave to...

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