IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT

MICHAEL G. LUTZ LODGE NO. 5, OF : No. 175 EAL 2014 THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, : : Petitioner : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the : Order of the Commonwealth Court : v. : : : CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, : : Respondent :

ORDER

PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 1st day of October, 2014, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:

(1) Whether the Commonwealth Court’s order allowing a panel of arbitrators to address an issue never raised in the underlying interest arbitration proceedings is contrary to decades of authority from courts of this Commonwealth limiting the authority of arbitrators to address only those issues timely and properly placed before them?

(2) Whether the Commonwealth Court’s order allowing a panel of arbitrators to address an issue never raised in the underlying interest arbitration proceedings is contrary to decades of authority from courts of this Commonwealth stating that decisions of Act 111 arbitrators are to be rendered swiftly and with finality?

Justice McCaffery did not participate in the consideration or decision of this matter.