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The Commonwealth Court also functions as a trial court in some civil actions by or against the Commonwealth government and cases regarding statewide elections. (42 Pa.C.S. §§ 761–764). Article V, section 4 of the 1968 Pennsylvania Constitution created the Commonwealth Court. Acts enacted in 1970 set up the court.
Also this week, the Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Pennsylvania appealed a separate court ruling on mail-in voting. In that case, Commonwealth Court judges decided counties ...
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 Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 334 F. Supp. 1257 (E.D. Pa. 1971), was a case where the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was sued by the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC), now The Arc of Pennsylvania, over a law that gave public schools the authority to deny a free education to children who had reached the age of 8, yet had ...
Commonwealth Court Judge Anne Covey in a recent decision said board members for Lehigh County's Parkland High School erred in 2021 when they approved a collective bargaining agreement without ...
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]
The court, in a brief order, dismissed three appeals in the case, vacated a lower court order and said the subpoena became “unenforceable” when the state Legislature's two-year session ended ...
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Northampton County C-48-CV-2020-6915 Dismissed Court denied oral motion. [35] [36] November 25, 2020: Kelly v. Pennsylvania: Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court No. 20A98 (US Supreme Ct.) 68 MAP 2020 (PA Supreme Ct.) 620 MD 2020 (PA Commonw. Ct.) Denied