Bailets v. PA Turnpike Com Ap of: Turnpike

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT RALPH M. BAILETS : No. 126 MAP 2016 : : Appeal from the Order of the v. : Commonwealth Court at No. 265 MD : 2009 dated December 1, 2016. : PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE : COMMISSION, ANTHONY Q. MAUN, : (DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING), AND : NIKOLAUS H. GRIESHABER, (CHIEF : FINANCIAL OFFICER) : : : APPEAL OF: PENNSYLVANIA : TURNPIKE COMMISSION : RALPH M. BAILETS : No. 23 MAP 2017 : : Appeal from the Commonwealth Court v. : Order dated April 26, 2017 at No. 265 : MD 2009. : PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE : COMMISSION, ANTHONY Q. MAUN, : (DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING), AND : NIKOLAUS H. GRIESHABER, (CHIEF : FINANCIAL OFFICER) : : : APPEAL OF: PENNSYLVANIA : TURNPIKE COMMISSION : ORDER PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 23rd day of August, 2017, oral argument is GRANTED, LIMITED to the following issue raised in the appeal docketed at 126 MAP 2016, as phrased by appellant: “Was the award of $1.6 million in ‘non-economic damages’ proper where the Whistleblower Law does not permit such damages and where the amount of non-economic damages awarded was arbitrary, excessive, and lacking in any rational basis in the record?” The Commonwealth Court’s order is AFFIRMED in all other respects. The appeal and ancillary petition at 23 MAP 2017 are DISMISSED as MOOT. [126 MAP 2016; 23 MAP 2017] - 2