IN RE CARNEY

No. 32 WAP 2011

79 A.3d 490 (2013)

In re Thomas CARNEY, Magisterial District Judge in and for Magisterial District 06-1-03, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Appeal of Judicial Conduct Board.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 30, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Daley, Esq. , Robert Pierce & Associates, P.C., Pittsburgh, Roderick Scott Marshall, Esq. , Brent M. Rosenthal, Esq. , for Spurgeon E. Landis and Mary A. Landis , his wife.

Daniel King Bricmont, Esq. , Caroselli, Beachler, McTiernan & Conboy, L.L.C., Pittsburgh, for Pennsylvania Association for Justice.

Andrew Frank Adomitis, Esq. , Jeannine Lynn Bertig, Esq. , Paragon Way, Inc., Leo Gerard Daly, Esq. , Grogan Graffam, P.C., Pittsburgh, for Goulds Pumps Inc.

Kenneth M. Argentieri, Esq. , Robert L. Byer, Esq. , Duane Morris, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, for Chemetron Corporation, The ESAB Group, Inc.

Alba E. Arriaga, Esq. , Riley, Hewitt, Witte & Romano, P.C., Pittsburgh, for A.W. Chesterton Co.

Eric R.I. Cottle, Esq. , K & L Gates, LLP, Nicholas P. Vari, Esq. , Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, Pittsburgh, for Crane Company, Inc.

William J. Donovan, Esq. , Burns, White & Hickton, L.L.C., Pittsburgh, for Ingersoll-Rand.

Gregory L. Fitzpatrick, Esq. , Margolis Edelstein, for Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC.

Andrew Edson Greenberg, Esq. , Eagleville, for CBS Corporation, Union Carbide Corporation.

Richard Linwood Walker II, Esq. , Kelley, Jasons, McGowan Spinelli & Hanna, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Union Carbide Corporation.

Jennifer E. Watson, Esq. , Edward Joseph Wibraham, Esq. , Wibraham Lawler & Buba, Pittsburgh, for Certainteed Corporation, Saint Gobaine Abrasives, Inc.

Anne Loehr Wilcox Lewis, Esq. , Kelley, Jasons, McGowan Spinelli & Hanna, L.L.P., for Hedman Mines, Ltd.

Dennis F. Wolford, Esq. , Reed, Luce, Tosh, Wolford & Douglass, Beaver, for Green Tweed & Co.

Louis C. Long, Esq. , Pietragallo, Gordon, Alfano, Bosick & Raspanti, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, for Pennsylvania Defense Institute.

Carl A. Solano, Esq. , Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Rohm & Haas Company.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, ORIE MELVIN, JJ.


OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

This matter comes before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania following an Opinion and Order by the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline ("CJD"), dismissing a complaint against appellee, Magisterial District Judge ("MDJ") Thomas Carney, that was filed by the Judicial Conduct Board ("Board"). The Board's complaint alleged that appellee Carney violated Article V, § 18(d)(1) of the Pennsylvania Constitution and...

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