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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 ...
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 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.
The Court of Common Pleas is the court of general jurisdiction over many civil and criminal matters in Pennsylvania. Before entering the main court system, usually people have to pass through magisterial district courts which are smaller-scale local courts that typically have jurisdiction over traffic citations, preliminary hearings in many ...
Sara M. Soffel: [8] [9] First female judge in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1930) Doris Smith-Ribner (1972): [17] [18] First African American female appointed as a Judge of the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court (1987) Cynthia Baldwin: [52] First African American female judge in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1989)
Lycoming County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census , the population was 114,188. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Williamsport . [ 2 ]
OLD LYCOMING TOWNSHIP, LYCOMING COUNTY, Pa (WPMT) — An Old Lycoming Township woman is charged with abuse of a corpse after she gave birth at just 29 weeks and drove around with the baby's body ...
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.