# Bowers v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · January 16, 1961 · 402 Pa. 542

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6257934

## Case

- **Full name:** Bowers v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** January 16, 1961
- **Citations:** 402 Pa. 542; 167 A.2d 480; 1961 Pa. LEXIS 396
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Musmanno
- **Judges:** Bell, Bok, Cohen, Eagen, Jones, Musmanno
- **Cited by:** 33 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- rejecting governor’s claim that he could remove at his pleasure a member of the Labor Relations Board, whose “members were not to be made amenable to political influence or discipline in the discharge of their official duties”
- stating similar language in different statutes requires the same construction

## Opinion text

Dissenting Opinion by
Me. Justice Musmanno:
I join in the able, in fact, magnificent, Dissenting Opinion written by my brother Benjamin R. Jones in this case. The purpose of this separate dissent is merely to say that while Justice Jones disagrees with the Watson case, * “reluctantly,” I oppose it whole-heartedly. I would overrule it instanter. When it was promulgated, I filed a Dissenting Opinion against it to *559 .the extent of twelve closely printed pages. By reference, I repeat and emphasize everything I said in that Dissent.
386 Pa. 117 .

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