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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 ...
Criminal dockets would be CP-51-CR-*****-2007. CP denotes the court, in this case, Common Pleas. 51 is the county code, in this case Philadelphia County. CR denotes the type of case, criminal. The * represents the case number and the last four digits are the year the case was created.
The Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice (formerly the Criminal Justice Center or CJC), is a courthouse that is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It is the main criminal courthouse of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania (which comprises Philadelphia), housing the Criminal Section of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and the Criminal Division of the ...
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 593 U.S. 522 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania violated First Amendment rights of a Catholic foster care agency by refusing to renew the agency's contract unless it agreed to certify married same-sex couples as foster parents.
Fulton County commissioners continue to roll the dice with taxpayer money on a 2020 election gambit that's failed repeatedly in court. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania this past April found the ...
The courts of common pleas are organized into 60 judicial districts, 53 comprising one of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, and seven comprising two counties. Each district has from one to 101 judges. Judges of the common pleas courts are elected to ten-year terms.
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 ...
The Malvern Institute was founded in 1948. [1] However, its roots date back to the early 1940s and the founding of the first Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Philadelphia.. Dr. C. Dudley Saul and Dr. C. Nelson Davis were both early supporters of AA and traveled together to lecture on behalf of AA [2] after becoming convinced of how a 12-step program could benefit recovering alcoholics.