SHAPP ET AL. v. SLOAN

No. 1194 C.D. 1976.

26 Pa.Commw. 589 (1976)

Milton J. Shapp, Governor, et al., Petitioners v. Grace M. Sloan, State Treasurer, Respondent. General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervening Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin R. Shuster, Deputy Attorney General, with him J. Justin Blewitt, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Vincent X. Yakowicz, Solicitor General, and Robert P. Kane, Attorney General, for petitioners.

James M. Marsh, Chief Counsel, for respondent.

Roland Morris, with him Henry T. Reath, and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for intervening respondent.

Argued September 8, 1976, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT. Judge KRAMER did not participate.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE BOWMAN, October 18, 1976:

On July 7, 1976, petitioners1 instituted this action challenging the constitutional validity of two recent Acts of the General Assembly regarding the control and appropriation of Federal augmentation funds.2 The State Treasurer was named as the sole respondent. On July 9, 1976, the law firm of Duane, Morris & Heckscher, purporting to represent the General...

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