Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Political Committees |
Committee - Trade/Business
207 FINANCE BUILDING, Harrisburg, PA 17120
Recent News About Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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HARRISBURG – Two leaders in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party are headed to higher office, as Attorney General Josh Shapiro has become the Commonwealth’s Governor-elect, and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman will go on to represent the state in the U.S. Senate.
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HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday that the Commonwealth’s Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam would resign her position at the end of the year, just three days after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania struck down a statewide school mask mandate order that she issued in September.
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HARRISBURG – After Pennsylvania voters in last month’s primary election opted to amend the state constitution and limit emergency declaration powers for Gov. Tom Wolf and all future state governors, a Philadelphia attorney says that the move will compel cooperation between the executive and legislature branches.
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HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar will resign her post this Friday, after Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration revealed that the Department of State failed to advertise a proposed constitutional amendment that would retroactively extend the timeline for victims to file civil actions against their abusers.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia sports medicine business owner who attempted to bill Gov. Tom Wolf more than $137,000 for the losses he incurred during adherence to COVID-19 orders has lost the first attempt at his case.
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HARRISBURG – After a federal judge’s recent rejection of their bid to prevent enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf’s face mask mandate statewide and the state’s contact tracking system for COVID-19, two Pennsylvania couples have appealed the denial to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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HARRISBURG – In the wake of increasing cases statewide, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19, stating he is not symptomatic and quarantining at home after receiving his test result.
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HARRISBURG – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania argues that an Indianapolis legal advocacy group is off-base in its assertions that the state has violated the National Voter Registration Act, in allegedly failing to maintain and update its rolls by removing deceased voters.
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HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed legislation passed by the General Assembly which extended immunity protections from liability connected to COVID-19 to a diverse array of health care entities and other businesses.
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HARRISBURG – Prior to an upcoming hearing regarding a preliminary injunction requested by four Pennsylvania citizens suing a trio of top state officials over the state’s “unconstitutional” mask mandate, the parties are grappling over whether plaintiffs suffered irreparable harm.
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HARRISBURG – A Republican lawmaker has authored a resolution calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Justice David N. Wecht, alleging that the judge is guilty of “misbehavior in office.”
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HARRISBURG – Litigation continues between a transgender male state employee and a Pennsylvania-affiliated health care provider, one which he claims is discriminating against him and denying insurance coverage for his gender/sex-affirming surgery.
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PITTSBURGH – The state’s top election official is not only seeking summary judgment in the lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign against herself and county election boards in Pennsylvania, but the intervention of the state Supreme Court, in arguing that the campaign’s claims are “legally flawed and fatally unsupported.”
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PITTSBURGH – A series of construction companies continue to claim they were deprived of constitutional due process by top state authorities, during their enforcement of shutdown orders meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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PHILADELPHIA – An Oregon safety director who fell into a five-foot-deep road construction hole below Interstate 95 in Philadelphia and was severely injured, has sued the professional and governmental entities he feels are liable.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal lawsuit looking to compel Pennsylvania election officials to change how voters’ signatures are verified on mail-in ballots prior to this year’s Presidential election, has been voluntarily dismissed by its plaintiffs.
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HARRISBURG – In a first-ever repudiation of policies taken by top state officials to protect the public during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge has declared parts of Gov. Tom Wolf’s virus prevention strategies to be unconstitutional.
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HARRISBURG – Four Pennsylvania citizens have launched litigation against a trio of top state officials, charging the state’s mandate to wear face masks and its contact tracing program during the coronavirus pandemic are actions of “tyranny” which violate their constitutional rights.
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PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit filed in federal court is looking to compel Pennsylvania election officials to change how voters’ signatures are verified on mail-in ballots, arguing that the votes of thousands of people may otherwise be invalidated in this year’s Presidential election.
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ALLENTOWN – A new federal lawsuit from Pennsylvania’s Libertarian, Constitution and Green parties argues the state requirements for collecting in-person signatures to qualify for a general election ballot are unconstitutional in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
