The state Supreme Court, at the request of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, is set to determine whether some Pennsylvania police departments fall outside the scope of the state’s two statutes governing how such agencies can terminate officers’ employment.

In the consolidated federal cases of DeForte v. Borough of Worthington and Townsend v. Borough of Worthington, plaintiffs William DeForte and Evan Townsend, two former part-time police officers with the Borough of Worthington, alleged their terminations deprived them of their due process rights because either the Pennsylvania Borough Code or the Police Tenure Act gave them a constitutionally protected property interest in their employment.

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