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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 ...
Berks County, Pennsylvania. / 40.42°N 75.93°W / 40.42; -75.93. Berks County ( Pennsylvania German: 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 courts of common pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state. The name derives from the medieval English court of Common Pleas. Pennsylvania established them in 1722. [ 1] They hear civil cases with a significant amount in controversy and trials for serious crimes. They have original jurisdiction over all cases not ...
The office of the Pennsylvania State Constable is a municipally elected, sworn Law Enforcement Officer [4] throughout the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [5]Pennsylvania State Constables are elected in each borough, township, and city ward in the state—except in Philadelphia (although constables may still exercise authority in the City of Philadelphia) —and serve six-year terms.
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 ...
William M. Pugh. www .pamd .uscourts .gov. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, M.D. Pa.) is a district level federal court with jurisdiction over approximately one half of Pennsylvania. The court was created in 1901 by subdividing the United States District Court for the Eastern District ...
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 ...
Nearly 30 parents in the Oley Valley School District, in Berks County, are suing to remove a recently appointed board member who allegedly had “Heil Hitler” and a faded swastika painted on her ...