IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT
CALIFORNIA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, : No. 330 WAL 2019
:
Respondent :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal
: from the Published Opinion and
v. : Order of the Commonwealth Court
: at No. 1570 CD 2018, at 213 A.3d
: 381 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2019) entered on
CALIFORNIA AREA EDUCATION : July 10, 2019, affirming and
ASSOCIATION, PSEA/NEA, : reversing the Order of the
: Washington County Court of
Petitioner : Common Pleas at No. No. 2017-
: 3169 entered on August 23, 2018
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 1st day of May, 2020, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is
GRANTED, the orders of the Commonwealth Court and the Washington County Court of
Common Pleas are VACATED, and the arbitrator’s award of May 29, 2017 is
REINSTATED. Millcreek Township School District v. Millcreek Township Educational
Support Personnel Association, 210 A.3d 993, 1002 (Pa. 2019) (under the essence test,
arbitration award under the Public Employe Relations Act “is to be respected by the
judiciary if the interpretation can in any rational way be derived from the [collective
bargaining] agreement” and “must be affirmed unless it indisputably and genuinely is
without foundation in, or fails to logically flow from, the collective bargaining agreement”
(internal quotation marks omitted)).