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BERGDOLL v. KANE

557 Pa. 72 (1999)

731 A.2d 1261

John G. BERGDOLL, K. Robin Davis, and Gerald C. Grimaud, Appellees, v. Honorable Yvette KANE, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor, Appellants. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 15, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Michael Fisher, Harrisburg, Calvin R. Koons, Senior Deputy Atty. Gen., John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., for Appellant, Secretary of the Com.

C. Clark Hodgson, Jr., Jonathan F. Bloom, Philadelphia, for Intervenor-General Assembly.

Leonard N. Sosnov, Associate Prof. of Law, Widener Univ., Wilmington, DE, for Bergdoll, Davis and Grimaud, John G. Bergdoll, III, Gerald C. Grimaud, K. Robin Davis, Bergdoll, Davis and Grimaud, pro se.

Clifford A. Rieders, Special Counsel, PA Bar Ass'n, Williamsport, for Intervenor-PA Bar Ass'n.

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

This is a direct appeal filed on behalf of Yvette Kane, Secretary of the Commonwealth, from the order of the Commonwealth Court which granted summary judgment against her in a quo warranto action challenging the placement of a proposed constitutional amendment on the November 7, 1995 ballot. For the following reasons, we affirm.

On October 17, 1995, John G. Bergdoll, K. Robin Davis and Gerald C. Grimaud (Appellees...

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