CITY OF PHILADELPHIA and John F. Street, Individually as a Taxpayer and in his Official Capacity as Mayor of Philadelphia, Petitioners/Appellees,
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Edward G. Rendell, in his Official Capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Robert C. Jubelirer, President Pro Tempore of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; John M. Perzel, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Robert J. Mellow, Minority Leader of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; H. William Deweese, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, Respondents/Appellants.
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Argued May 14, 2003.
Decided November 7, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John G. Knorr, III, Calvin Royer Koons, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Edward G. Rendell.
Claude Joseph Hafner, James J. Conaboy, Edwin Aksel Abrahamsen, for Robert Mellow.
Linda J. Shorey, John P. Krill, for John M. Perzel.
Michael P. Edmiston, Reizdan B. Moore, Joseph Matthias Cosgrove, for H. William DeWeese.
William R. Thompson, Nelson A. Diaz, Mark R. Zecca, Michael F. Eichert, for City of Philadelphia.
Sean Vincent Burke, David Allen Hitchens, Judith E. Harris, for Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority.
Jennifer R. Clarke, Nelson A. Diaz, Michael F. Eichert, Edward T. Fisher, Robert C. Heim, William R. Thompson, Philip N. Yannella, Mark R. Zecca, for City of Philadelphia and John F. Street.
Carolyn H. Nichols, Alfred W. Putnam, Obra S. Kernodle, Emily Mirsky, for Philadelphia Parking Authority.
Before CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and LAMB, JJ.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
This is an appeal from an order of the Commonwealth Court preliminarily enjoining the implementation of an act of the General Assembly which, inter alia, reorganized the governance of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The Court assumed plenary jurisdiction to resolve the underlying facial state constitutional challenge to the...
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