Civil Service Position • Veterans’ Preference • Definition of “Soldier”

Blake v. State Civil Service Commission, PICS Case No. 17-0726 (Pa. July 25, 2017) Donohue, J. (21 pages).

Petitioner, a former cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who did not graduate from the school or ever obligate himself to perform any subsequent military service, did not qualify as a “soldier” within the meaning of the state’s Veterans’ Preference Act. The lower court erred in granting petitioner veterans’ preference.

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