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Commonwealth v. Brady, 510 Pa. 123, 507 A.2d 66 (Pa. 1986), [1] is a case decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1986 which overruled close to two centuries of decisional law in Pennsylvania and established a common law exception to the rule against hearsay.
The court states that it was not important that there is no precedent in statues or books, but whether the alleged crimes could be prosecuted and the offenders punished under the common law. The court argues the use of factual charges and indictments to establish the offense as a common law misdemeanor and the victim's testimony to establish guilt.
The Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are the official compilation of session laws enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [1] Pennsylvania is undertaking its first official codification process. [2] [3] It is published by the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau [4] (PALRB or LRB). [5] Volumes of Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes ...
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania is one of two Pennsylvania intermediate appellate courts. The jurisdiction of the nine-judge Commonwealth Court is limited to appeals from final orders of certain state agencies and certain designated cases from the courts of common pleas involving public sector legal questions and government regulation.
Pennsylvania's legal system is based on common law, which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court, Superior Court, and Commonwealth Court, which are published in the Pennsylvania State Reports and the Pennsylvania Reporter. [citation needed] Municipalities may also promulgate local ordinances. In addition, there ...
This category contains articles regarding case law decided by the courts of Pennsylvania. Pages in category "Pennsylvania state case law" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.
William Penn School District et al. v. Pennsylvania Department of Education et al. was a landmark decision of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on funding for public education by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The Court ruled that the underfunding of rural and underprivileged school districts violated the Pennsylvania Constitution. [1]