LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY


819 A.2d 155 (2003)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF GREATER PITTSBURGH, Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP), Daniel I. Booker, Linda Dickerson, Edward S. Kiely, Appellants, v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Michael Coyne as Prothonotary of Allegheny County, Peter DeFazio as Allegheny County Sheriff, Michael Della Vecchia as Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds, Allan Kirschman as Allegheny County Jury Commissioner, George Matta as Allegheny County Clerk of Courts, Jean Milko as Allegheny County Jury Commissioner, Dan Onorato as Allegheny County Controller, Cyril Wecht as Allegheny County Coroner, David Wecht as Allegheny County Register of Wills, John Weinstein as Treasurer of Allegheny County, and Stephen Zappala as District Attorney of Allegheny County.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 14, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Thomas McGough, Jr., Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Ronald G. Backer, Pittsburgh, for appellee, Prothonotary of Allegheny Cnty.

Bernard M. Schneider, Pittsburgh, for appellee, District Attorney of Allegheny Cnty.

Before: SMITH-RIBNER, Judge, FRIEDMAN, Judge, and JIULIANTE, Senior Judge.


OPINION BY Judge FRIEDMAN.

The League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP), Daniel I. Booker, Linda Dickerson and Edward S. Kiely (collectively, the Taxpayers) appeal from the September 5, 2002, order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court), which sustained preliminary objections to the Taxpayers' Complaint for Declaratory Judgment and Injunctive Relief (Complaint) and dismissed the Complaint for failure...

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