VALENTI v. MITCHELL

Civ. A. No. 92-1680.

790 F.Supp. 551 (1992)

Philip VALENTI, Betty Clift, Dorothy Ferebee, Eric Bradway, Stuart W. Kessler, Arline Lotman, Patricia W. Lord, Howard William Glassman, Sean Lannon, Martin Zehr, and Francis Worley, Plaintiffs, v. Brenda K. MITCHELL, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, William Boehm, Commissioner, Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation, and Arlen Specter, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

April 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel C. Stretton, West Chester, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Gregory E. Dunlap, Deputy General Counsel, Com. of Pa., Gwendolyn T. Mosley, Sr. Deputy Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants Mitchell and Boehm.

Mark A. Klugheit, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Senator Specter.


MEMORANDUM

GAWTHROP, District Judge.

In my Opinion and Order of April 3, 1992, I raised and addressed, sua sponte, a jurisdictional issue that was neither argued nor pursued by the parties. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, however, yesterday ordered that the issue be briefed by today, for argument tomorrow, thus signaling its concerns on that question. I, too, am constantly mindful of my finite jurisdictional ambit, and I deem it appropriate to...

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