PITTSBURGH CORNING CORPORATION, Petitioner,
v.
Honorable Edward J. BRADLEY, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, and Honorable Harry A. Takiff, Asbestos Calendar Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Respondents.
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Argued September 23, 1982.
Decided December 14, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Edward J. David, Charles A. Fitzpatrick, III, Curran, Mylotte, David & Fitzpatrick, Philadelphia, for petitioner.
Melvin Brookman, Joseph D. Shein, Shein & Brookman, Sidney B. Klovsky, Klovsky, Kuby & Harris, Gene Locks, Greitzer & Locks, Alan J. Davis, not involved, City Sol., Peter F. Vaira, Jr., U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Leroy S. Zimmerman, Atty. Gen. for Com. of Pa., Harrisburg, Alexander F. Barbieri, Court Adm'r of Pa., Lise Luborsky, Robert Corbin, Walter Jenkins, Barbara Pennell, Edward Joseph, Alfred W. Putman, Jr., Thomas Malcolm, Philadelphia, Lynn Detweiler, Peter Weber, Harold Marcus, Francis Shields, John P. Kelley, Dan Ryan, Arthur Makadon, Perry Bechtle, Joseph Foster, Philadelphia, Peter Dunn, Media, Walter Meeley, Edward Greer, James Young, Dudley Hughes, Philadelphia, for respondents.
Howland W. Abramson, Philadelphia, for Judge Bradley, et al.
James Young, Philadelphia, for amici curiae Owens-Illinois, Inc.
Norman Perlberger, Philadelphia, for amici curiae Daniel R. Fluharty, Jr., etc., et al.
Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT and HUTCHINSON, JJ.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROBERTS, Justice.
Petitioner, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, a defendant in asbestos litigation, has requested this Court to exercise its plenary jurisdiction and to issue a writ of prohibition barring the implementation of Philadelphia General Court Regulation 82-5, which establishes a program of non-jury trials, with a right of jury trial de novo, for asbestos litigation in the Court of Common...
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