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The courts of common pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state. The name derives from the medieval English court of Common Pleas. Pennsylvania established them in 1722. [1] They hear civil cases with a significant amount in controversy and trials for serious crimes. They have original jurisdiction over all cases not ...
Amherst College (B.A. 1960); Yale University (LL. B. 1963) Ralph Stanton Wettick Jr. is a retired United States judge who served on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania 's Fifth Judicial District, [1] from 1976 to 2016. He was a leading authority on discovery under Pennsylvania's Rules of Civil Procedure ...
The First Judicial District, in Philadelphia, has a specialized business court docket, the Commerce Case Management Program, first established in 1999 by administrative order of Judge John W. Herron, as does the Fifth Judicial District in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), the Commerce and Complex Litigation Center, [3] originally led by Judges R ...
A new jail was built by Allegheny County in 1995 near the Allegheny River. The old jail underwent a transformation to become the Family Division of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. [ 13 ] The conversion, which cost approximately $25 million and took two years to complete, aimed to retain key elements of the jail like the rotunda, the ...
Pennsylvania. (2020) Allegheny County (/ ˌælɪˈɡeɪni / AL-ig-AY-nee) is a county in Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, after Philadelphia County. Its county seat and most populous city is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's second most populous city. [ 2 ]
Allegheny County Court records show the case was dismissed for a lack of activity in 2021. The debts also included $18,100 in legal fees owed to Pascal, which McClelland said Pascal forgave.
University of Scranton (BA) University of Pittsburgh (JD) Bruce Beemer (born December 14, 1968) is an American attorney and jurist currently serving as a judge on the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. He previously served as the attorney general of Pennsylvania [1] from 2016 to 2017 and as Inspector General of Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2019.
NORTH FAYETTE TWP. ― An Allegheny County district magistrate has resigned from his position after officials said there was "probable cause to file formal charges" for allegations of ...