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BECKERT v. WARREN

497 Pa. 137 (1981)

439 A.2d 638

Paul R. BECKERT, President Judge, Individually and on behalf of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Plaintiffs v. Andrew L. WARREN, Elaine P. Zettick, and Carl F. Fonash, County Commissioners and members of the Bucks County Salary Board, Ward F. Clark, Esquire, Controller and member of the Bucks County Salary Board, William P. Snyder, Treasurer of the County of Bucks, and Paul R. Beckert, President Judge as a member of the Bucks County Salary Board, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 22, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry T. Reath, Michael M. Baylson, George E. Pierce, Philadelphia, for plaintiffs.

Robert L. White, County Sol., Ward F. Clark, County Comptroller, Doylestown, for defendants.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, KAUFFMAN and WILKINSON, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

O'BRIEN, Chief Justice.

This action was precipitated by the breakdown of negotiations between the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County and the Bucks County Commissioners concerning that court's budgetary requirements for fiscal 1981. Although this dispute originates at the county level, it represents a deadlock between the judicial and legislative branches of government in the exercise of their...

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