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COM. ex rel. SPECTER v. DENNIS and COX

Original jurisdiction, No. 146 C.D. 1973.

10 Pa.Commw. 439 (1973)

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex rel. District Attorney Arlen Specter, Plaintiff, v. Ralph M. Dennis, Municipal Court Judge, and Edward S. Cox, Municipal Court Judge, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

August 2, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven H. Goldblatt, Assistant District Attorney, with him Robert B. Lawler, Assistant District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for plaintiff.

Howard Gittis, with him Alan J. Davis and, of counsel, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, for defendant, Dennis.

Isaiah W. Crippins, for defendant, Cox.

Argued June 6, 1973, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT.

OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE BOWMAN, August 2, 1973:

This is an action in mandamus brought in this Court against two judges of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia.

On February 9, 1973, the District Attorney of Philadelphia filed a complaint in mandamus requesting this Court to order the Honorable RALPH M. DENNIS and the Honorable EDWARD S. COX, Judges of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, to "carry out their required duties as public officers and, more specifically...

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