Lock Haven University placed a professor on paid administrative leave when it learned of a sexual abuse conviction that took place more than a decade before his hire. Although the Commonwealth Court granted an injunction limiting the background checks to faculty that met certain specifications which the professor had the arbitrator in the case found that the University lacked just cause for termination. While the Court did agree that the professors past conduct implicated the public policy in favor of protecting minors from abuse, it disagreed that the professors reinstatement violated public policy.
