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PA. ST. ASS'N OF TP. SUP'RS v. THORNBURGH

496 Pa. 324 (1981)

437 A.2d 1

PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS, Asa D. Burkholder, Leon Lankford, and Vince Charpentier, Appellants, v. Richard L. THORNBURGH, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert E. Casey, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ethel D. Allen, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Franklin County Board of Elections, Bucks County Board of Elections, York County Board of Elections, Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission, District Attorney of Franklin County, District Attorney of Bucks County, and District Attorney of York County.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 29, 1981.

Reargument Denied December 1, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Wenger, Harrisburg, for appellants.

Robert B. Hoffman, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellees Thornburgh, Casey and Allen.

David Rittenhouse Morrison, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee Pennsylvania State Ethics Com'n.

John R. Walker, Dist. Atty., for appellee Franklin County.

Kenneth G. Biehn, Dist. Atty., for appellee Bucks County.

John C. Uhler, Dist. Atty., for appellee York County.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

The Court being equally divided, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is affirmed.

O'BRIEN, C.J., files an Opinion in Support of Affirmance which KAUFFMAN, J., joins.

NIX, J., would affirm the order of the Commonwealth Court.

ROBERTS, J., files an Opinion in Support of Reversal which LARSEN and FLAHERTY, JJ., join.

FLAHERTY, J., files an Opinion in Support of Reversal.

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