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SWEENEY, ET AL. v. TUCKER, ET AL.

No. 1386 C.D. 1975.

22 Pa.Commw. 642 (1976)

Leonard E. Sweeney, Esquire, Vincent S. Mazza and James P. Heffley, Plaintiffs v. C. DeLores Tucker, Secretary of the Commonwealth; Grace M. Sloan, Treasurer of the Commonwealth; Herbert Fineman, Speaker of the House; K. LeRoy Irvis, Majority Leader of the House; Samuel Rappaport, Chairman of the Ethics Committee; Jean Francis, House Comptroller, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 14, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Livingston, with him Livingston, Miller & Haywood, for plaintiffs.

Melvin R. Shuster, Deputy Attorney General, for defendants, Tucker and Sloan.

Russell A. Davis, Chief Legal Counsel, for defendants, Fineman, Irvis, Rappaport and Francis.

Argued October 29, 1975, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT.

OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, January 14, 1976:

Leonard E. Sweeney, formerly a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and two of his former constituents of the Seventeenth Legislative District have filed a complaint in equity against the Comptroller of the House of Representatives, two high officers of the Commonwealth and three members of the House. The plaintiffs claim that Mr. Sweeney's expulsion...

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