IN RE MUNICIPAL REAPPORTIONMENT OF TP.


873 A.2d 821 (2005)

In Re: MUNICIPAL REAPPORTIONMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HAVERFORD and the Creation of New Election Districts Within the Reapportioned Wards. Appeal of: Patricia Sons Biswanger, Gary Bogossian, Larry Chrzan, Michael Curry, Melissa Eastman, Jeffrey Heilmann, Andy Lewis, James E. McGarrity, Ronald E. Pogue, Kenneth Richardson, John Rogers, Jan Marie Rushforth, Paul Scoles, Conor Quinn, Daniel Quinn, Michael Stein, and Robert Trumbull, on behalf of themselves and 1,477 qualified electors and residents of the Township of Haverford. In Re: Electors and Residents of Haverford Township. Appeal of: Patricia Sons Biswanger.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 29, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Sons Biswanger, Bryn Mawr, for appellants.

Lawrence J. Tabas, Philadelphia, for appellee, Township of Haverford.

Francis J. Catania, Media, for appellee, Delaware County Board of Elections.

BEFORE: COLINS, President Judge, SMITH-RIBNER, Judge, PELLEGRINI, Judge, FRIEDMAN, Judge, LEADBETTER, Judge, SIMPSON, Judge, and LEAVITT, Judge.


OPINION BY Judge LEAVITT.

Patricia Sons Biswanger (Biswanger) appeals two orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County (trial court) barring her effort to have a reapportionment plan of Haverford Township (Haverford or Township) set aside. In the first order, the trial court dismissed Biswanger's petition for declaratory and statutory relief to void Haverford's reapportionment because it was untimely filed and invoked...

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