IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
EASTERN DISTRICT
MICHAEL G. LUTZ LODGE NO. 5, OF : No. 175 EAL 2014
THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, :
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Petitioner : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the
: Order of the Commonwealth Court
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v. :
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CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, :
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Respondent :
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 1st day of October, 2014, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is
GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Whether the Commonwealth Court’s order allowing a panel of arbitrators
to address an issue never raised in the underlying interest arbitration
proceedings is contrary to decades of authority from courts of this
Commonwealth limiting the authority of arbitrators to address only those
issues timely and properly placed before them?
(2) Whether the Commonwealth Court’s order allowing a panel of arbitrators
to address an issue never raised in the underlying interest arbitration
proceedings is contrary to decades of authority from courts of this
Commonwealth stating that decisions of Act 111 arbitrators are to be
rendered swiftly and with finality?
Justice McCaffery did not participate in the consideration or decision of this
matter.