SMOLOW v. HAFER

No. 32 MAP 2005.

959 A.2d 298 (2008)

Ronald J. SMOLOW, Individually and on Behalf of all Persons and Entities Similarly Situated, Appellant v. Barbara HAFER, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Treasury Department of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 19, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Marshall Caldwell, Esq., for Ronald J. Smolow.

Howard Greeley Hopkirk, Esq., Thomas W. Corbett, Esq., Office of the Attorney General, John G. Knorr, Esq., PA Office of Attorney General, for Barbara Hafer.

Before: CASTILLE, C.J., and SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD and McCAFFERY, JJ.


OPINION

Justice BAER.1

Appellant, Ronald J. Smolow, challenges the Commonwealth Court's decision to dismiss his class action complaint against the State Treasurer and the Treasury Department (collectively, the "Department"), which asserted, inter alia, a challenge to the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's Disposition of Abandoned and Unclaimed Property Act, Act of December 9, 1982, P.L. 1057 § 5 (as amended...

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