A week after invalidating a legislative redistricting plan for the new decade, the first time such a ruling has occurred since the late 1960s, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released its majority opinion in the case, stating that it ruled the 2011 Legislative Reapportionment Plan was unconstitutional because it unnecessarily broke up political subdivisions.
A bill aimed at deterring localities from enacting their own municipal firearms ordinances by hitting them where it hurts most, their wallets, has passed the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee.
The speaker of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania seeking to have legislative districts that were drawn up in 2001 declared unconstitutional and therefore unusable.
Soon after Republican state Sen. John Rafferty announced he was exiting the race for state attorney general, a Democratic candidate followed suit with the same news.
In an unprecedented move, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Wednesday struck down as unconstitutional a legislative redistricting plan that had caused a bipartisan uproar, with Democrats accusing Republicans, who control both legislative chambers, of cutting up districts to suit their own political agendas.
Pennsylvania state Sen. John Rafferty, a Republican lawmaker from suburban Philadelphia who had his sights set on the commonwealth’s top law enforcement position, has announced that he has suspended his race for attorney general, citing a failure to obtain Gov. Tom Corbett’s endorsement.
The chairman of the Montgomery County, Pa. Board of Commissioners was arrested on perjury charges Tuesday, capping an 18-month grand jury investigation into the county’s three-member board.
John C. Rafferty, a Republican state senator from eastern Pennsylvania, has thrown his name into the mix for those seeking to become the commonwealth’s next top law enforcement official.
Rob Gleason, Pennsylvania’s GOP Chairman issued a statement that Pennsylvania Superior Court candidate David Wecht, a Democrat, is indebted to trial lawyers because he has received a $300,000 donation from the Committee for a Better Tomorrow, a political action committee financed by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
A newly released academic study by a law school professor asserts that Philadelphia’s civil court system is attractive to plaintiff’s from outside of the city – at the expense of local consumers and businesses.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - The American Tort Reform Association is throwing its support behind a Pennsylvania bill that it says will address forum-shopping in personal injury lawsuits.
As president of the central Pennsylvania chapter of Firearms Owners Against Crime, Timothy Havener has the time to fight illegal gun ordinances throughout the commonwealth.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Max Baer's recent comments about a Lackawanna County judge who may have to answer to the Court of Judicial Discipline to (CJD has raised the ire of legal observers.
With a stroke of his pen, Pennsylvania’s chief executive appears to have made it difficult, if not near impossible, for survivors of attackers killed in self-defense shootings to sue the person who killed their family member.
The City of Philadelphia has agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit that was filed seven months ago over the police department’s controversial “stop and frisk” crime-fighting tactic.
Pennsylvanians who find themselves involved in justified self-defense shootings will no longer face civil lawsuits if a bill that sailed through the state senate this week becomes law.
