# Allegheny Valley School v. Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · June 18, 1997 · 548 Pa. 355

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9758927

## Case

- **Full name:** ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL, Appellant, v. PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BOARD OF REVIEW, Darrell Callwood, Intervenor, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** June 18, 1997
- **Citations:** 548 Pa. 355; 697 A.2d 243; 1997 Pa. LEXIS 1179
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Nigro
- **Judges:** Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that section 3 of Law, 43 P.S. § 752, is a guide by which to interpret and construe the individual sections of the Law
- noting that the Law was enacted to address the “serious menace" of “economic insecurity due to unemployment”

## Opinion text

NIGRO, Justice,
dissenting.
I would affirm the Commonwealth Court’s decision based upon Old Forge Bank v. Unemployment Compensation Bd. of Review, 666 A.2d 761 (Pa.Cmwlth.1995). I join in Mr. Justice Gappy’s dissenting opinion with the exception of his statements that a necessitous and compelling reason to voluntarily leave employment requires “the most drastic circumstances.” To the contrary, a necessitous and compelling reason to leave “results from circumstances which produce pressure to terminate employment that is both real and substantial, and which would compel a reasonable person under the circumstances to act in the same manner.” Taylor v. Unemployment Compensation Bd. of Review, 474 Pa. 351, 358-59 , 378 A.2d 829, 832-33 (1977); Old Forge, 666 A.2d at 764 .

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