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This is a list of former and current non-federal courthouses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each of the 67 counties in the Commonwealth has a city or borough designated as the county seat where the county government resides, including a county courthouse for the court of general jurisdiction, the Court of Common Pleas. Other courthouses are used by the three state-wide appellate courts ...
Berks County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Barricks Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census , the county's population was 428,849. [ 2 ] The county seat is Reading , the fourth-most populous city in the state. [ 3 ]
The Court's jurisdiction includes nine counties in eastern Pennsylvania: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, and Philadelphia counties. The district is a part of the Third Circuit , and appeals are taken to that Circuit, except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act ...
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.
May 27—A six-year legal battle between Berks County and a local landfill has finally come to an end. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined this week to hear an appeal brought by the owners of ...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania redrew the district in February 2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional. [5] Jim Gerlach served as the district's Representative from 2003 to 2014. In 2004 and 2006, Gerlach won re-election against fellow attorney and now Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Lois Murphy. In 2008, he ...
Sep. 1—A Berks County lawyer accused of cheating a Harrisburg law firm out of $120,000 that it claimed as its fee for negotiating a client's civil settlement was suspended from law practice ...
The United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was subdivided on April 20, 1818, by 3 Stat. 462 , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] into the Eastern and Western Districts to be headquartered in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh ...