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PIPER GROUP v. BEDMINSTER TP. BD. OF SUP'RS

No. 75 MAP 2010

30 A.3d 1083 (2011)

The PIPER GROUP, INC., Charles E. Sigety, Katharine S. Sigety, Nero Enterprises, Sigety Trust c/o Trustees Charles Birge Sigety and Katharine K. Yon, Piperlands Properties, L.P., 110 Dark Hollow Road, LLC., Robert G. Sigety, Cornelius E. Sigety, Elizabeth D. Sigety, and Robert G. Sigety, as Tenants by the Entireties and Robert G. Sigety Grat c/o Trustee Cornelius E. Sigety, Appellants v. BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP BOARD OF SUPERVISORS and Bedminster Township, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 28, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Gundlach Jr. , Fox Rothschild, L.L.P., Warrington, Kellie Ann McGowan , Eastburn and Gray, P.C., Doylestown, Abraham C. Reich , Fox Rothschild, L.L.P., Philadelphia, John A. Van Luvanee , Eastburn and Gray, P.C., Clair E. Wischusen , Warrington, for the Piper Group, Inc., et al.

Matthew Nathan McClure , Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, H. Peter Nelson , John Bernard Rice , Grim, Biehn & Thatcher, P.C., Perkasie, Michael Sklaroff , Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, for Bedminster Township Board of Supervisors and Bedminster Township.

Terry W. Clemons , Clemons Richter Walsh & Reiss, P.C., Doylestown, for Appellee Amicus Curiae, Bucks County Association of Township Officials.

David Russell Getz , Thomas L. Wenger , Wix, Wenger & Weidner, P.C., Harrisburg, for Appellee Amicus Curiae, PA State Association of Township Supervisors.

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

OPINION

Justice BAER.

Appellants, the Piper Group, et al.,1 filed a constitutional challenge to a 1996 zoning ordinance enacted by Bedminster Township. In support of this challenge, Piper relied on an opinion from this Court that had been announced a mere six days earlier, pertaining to the same ordinance: C & M Developers, Inc. v. Bedminster Twp. Hearing Bd., 573 Pa. 2, 820 A.2d 143<...

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