Robert C. JUBELIRER, Senator and President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, and John M. Perzel, Representative and Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Appellants
v.
Edward G. RENDELL, Governor of Pennsylvania; Robin L. Wiessmann, State Treasurer of Pennsylvania; Michael J. Masch, Secretary of Budget and Administration of Pennsylvania; Estelle Richman, Secretary of Public Welfare of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare; Allen D. Biehler, Secretary of Transportation of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Colonel Jeffrey B. Miller, Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police; Pennsylvania State Police, Appellees.
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Argued March 4, 2008.
Decided August 19, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Barbara L. Christie, Esq., PA State Police, Harrisburg, for Pennsylvania State Police.
Peter Houghton LeVan, Esq., Mark Alan Aronchick, Esq., Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin, P.C., Philadelphia, for Rendell, Ed, et al.
Leonidas Pandeladis, Esq., Harrisburg, for Robin L. Wiessmann.
Deborah Melamut Minkoff, Esq., Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of PA.
Claude Joseph Hafner, Esq., Public Consulting Group, Inc., Gladys Marie Brown, Esq., PA Senate, Harrisburg, for amicus curiae Robert J. Mellow.
Lisa Whitcomb Clark, Esq., Bahar Shariati, Esq., Duane Morris, L.L.P., for amicus curiae Family Planning Council, et al.
Reizdan B. Moore, Esq., David Vincent Vitale, Esq., PA House of Representatives, Harrisburg, for amicus curiae H. William DeWeese.
Monica L. Rebuck, Esq., Peter Houghton LeVan, Esq., Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin, P.C., Andrew S. Gordon, Esq., Harrisburg, for Department of Transportation.
Allen C. Warshaw, Esq., John A. Kane, Esq., PA Department of Public Welfare, for Department of Public Welfare.
James D. Neilson, Esq., Harrisburg, for Michael J. Masch.
Linda J. Shorey, Esq., John P. Krill, Jr., Esq., George A. Bibikos, Esq., Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Preston, Gates, Ellis, L.L.P., Harrisburg, for Jubelirer, Robert and Perzel, John.
BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., and SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD and McCAFFERY, JJ.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
OPINION
Chief Justice CASTILLE.
Today we are asked to decide whether Article IV, Section 16 of the Pennsylvania Constitution ("Section 16")1 permits the Governor, when presented with an appropriation bill, to delete portions of the language defining a specific appropriation without disapproving the funds with which the language is associated. Relying upon this Court's decision in Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General...
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