Parker v. Com., Dept. of Labor and Industry

• Decision Date: 10 May 1989
• Docket Number: No. 14,No. 13,13,14
• Citation: 521 Pa. 531,557 A.2d 1061
• Parties: Pearlie M. PARKER, Richard W. Bittinger, Wayne Stine and Leonard Spielman, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, and Harris L. Wofford, Jr., Secretary of Labor and Industry, and Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc., Motts U.S.A., W.E. Bittinger Co., Inc., John F. Cope Co., Inc., Furman Foods, Inc., Benjamin Lipitz Co., Kresge Farm Foods, Inc., Welch Foods, Inc. Appeals of Pearlie M. PARKER, Wayne Stine and Leonard Spielman (at) and Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc., Motts U.S.A. Division of Cadbury Schweppes, Inc., W.E. Bittinger Co., Inc., John F. Cope Co., Inc., Furman Foods, Inc., Benjamin Lipitz Co., Kresge Farm Foods, Inc., Welch Foods, Inc. (at). 13 M.D. 1988, 14 M.D. 1988
• Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Page 1061

557 A.2d 1061

521 Pa. 531

Pearlie M. PARKER, Richard W. Bittinger, Wayne Stine and Leonard Spielman, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, and Harris L. Wofford, Jr., Secretary of Labor and Industry, and Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc., Motts U.S.A., W.E. Bittinger Co., Inc., John F. Cope Co., Inc., Furman Foods, Inc., Benjamin Lipitz Co., Kresge Farm Foods, Inc., Welch Foods, Inc. Appeals of Pearlie M. PARKER, Wayne Stine and Leonard Spielman (at No. 13) and Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc., Motts U.S.A. Division of Cadbury Schweppes, Inc., W.E. Bittinger Co., Inc., John F. Cope Co., Inc., Furman Foods, Inc., Benjamin Lipitz Co., Kresge Farm Foods, Inc., Welch Foods, Inc. (at No. 14).

13 M.D. 1988, 14 M.D. 1988

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued May 3, 1989.

Decided May 10, 1989.

Appeals Nos. 13 and 14 M.D. Appeal Dkt.1988 from Order of Commonwealth Court entered March 31, 1988, at No. 583 C.D.1987, 115 Pa.Cmwlth. 93, 540 A.2d 313.

Donald Marritz, Carolyn L. Carter, Gettysburg, for appellants.

John S. Oyler, H. Lee Roussel, Alan R. Boynton, Jr., Harrisburg, for Knouse Foods Co-op et al.

Kathryn H. Levering, David F. Abernethy, Philadelphia, for Cadbury Schweppes, Inc., and Motts U.S.

R. Douglas Sherman, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee.

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

ORDER

PER CURIAM:

Order affirmed.

LARSEN, J., dissents.