BELL v. LEHIGH COUNTY BD. OF ELECTIONS


729 A.2d 1259 (1999)

Eleanora C. BELL, Appellant, v. LEHIGH COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS and City of Allentown and Thomas W. Burke, Daniel Scott Armstrong, Patricia M. Engler, Russell W. Platek and R. Scott Unger.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blake C. Marles, Lehigh Valley, for appellant.

Francis P. Burianek and Andrew V. Schantz, Allentown, for appellee, City of Allentown.

Before COLINS, President Judge, DOYLE, J., and FRIEDMAN, J.


FRIEDMAN, Judge.

Eleanor C. Bell (Bell) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County (trial court) denying Bell's motion to preliminarily enjoin the Lehigh County Board of Elections (Board) from placing a voter initiative relating to the City of Allentown's (City) Landlord Licensing Law (Ordinance) on the May 1999 election ballot. We affirm.

On November 25, 1998, five City voters, desiring to invoke the initiative process of the City...

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