# Snyder v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 26, 1985 · 509 Pa. 438

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6263410

## Case

- **Full name:** Joan L. SNYDER v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BOARD OF REVIEW
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 26, 1985
- **Citations:** 509 Pa. 438; 502 A.2d 1232; 1985 Pa. LEXIS 508
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Larsen
- **Judges:** Files, Flaherty, Hutchinson, Larsen, McDer, McDermott, Mott, Nix, Papadakos, Zappala
- **Cited by:** 13 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that legislative attempt to authorize political activity by court employees was an unconstitutional infringement upon the Supreme Court’s exclusive constitutional mandate to administrate all courts and supervise all officers of the judicial branch
- concluding that a statutory provision was suspended to the extent it conflicted with a Pennsylvania Supreme Court administrative directive forbidding court employees from engaging in partisan political activity

## Opinion text

LARSEN, J.,
dissents and adopts the dissenting opinion of Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Williams in this case. See Fayette County v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 84 Pa.Commw. 260, 479 A.2d 1153, 1157-58 (1984) (Williams, J., dissenting).

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