STATE TROOPERS ASS'N v. COM.


920 A.2d 173 (2007)

PENNSYLVANIA STATE TROOPERS ASSOCIATION, and Bruce A. Edwards, Individually and as President of the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association, Petitioners, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania GAMING CONTROL BOARD, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 17, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Sloane, Esq., Reizdan B. Moore, Esq., David Vincent Vitale, Esq., PA House of Representatives, Carlisle, for Rep. H. William DeWeese, House Minority Leader.

Sean Thomas Welby, Esq., Gary M. Lightman, Esq., Harrisburg, for PA State Troopers Association.

Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Esq., PA Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, for Commonwealth of PA.

Arleigh Pritchard Helfer, III, Esq., Lawrence T. Hoyle, Esq., Thomas Andrew Decker, Esq., Arlene Fickler, Esq., Hoyle, Fickler, Herschel & Mathes, L.L.P., for Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

Barbara L. Christie, Esq., PA State Police, Harrisburg, for amicus curiae PA State Police.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER and BALDWIN, JJ.


OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

Petitioners, the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association ("Troopers Association" or "Association"), have filed an Application for Leave to File Original Process, requesting that this Court invoke its original jurisdiction pursuant to Section 1904 of the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act, 4 Pa.C.S. §§ 1101-1904 ("Gaming Act" or "Act")1, along with a Petition for Review...

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