PITTSBURGH v. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

No. 18 WAP 2016.

161 A.3d 160 (2017)

CITY OF PITTSBURGH, Appellee, v. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, FORT PITT LODGE NO. 1, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

DECIDED: May 22, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gretchen Kirstin Love, Esq. , Campbell Durrant Beatty Palombo & Miller, P.C., for Pennsylvania Municipal League, Amicus Curiae.

Eric Carl Stoltenberg, Esq. , Lightman Welby & Stoltenberg, LLC, for Fraternal Order of Police, Fort Pitt Lodge No. 1, Appellant.

Joshua Martin Bloom, Esq. , Joshua M. Bloom and Associates, P.C., for International Association of Fire Fighter, Local No. 1, Appellant Amicus Curiae.

Wendy Kobee, Esq. , City of Pittsburgh Law Department, Alex Michael Lacey, Esq. , Clifford B. Levine, Esq. , Alice Birmingham Mitinger, Esq. , Cohen & Grigsby, P.C., for City of Pittsburgh, Appellee.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.


OPINION

In this discretionary appeal, we consider whether a home rule municipality may amend its home rule charter1 to eliminate mandatory subjects of bargaining as defined by the Police and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act, commonly known as Act 111, 43 P.S. §§...

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