IN RE PETITION OF VALENTY

Nos. 25 WAP 2011, 26 WAP 2011

43 A.3d 464 (2012)

In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore "Sam" J. VALENTY for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell. In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore "Sam" J. Valenty for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 2, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse David Daniel , the Serene Law Firm, Indiana, for Steven R. Mitchell, Appellant.

Katherine Elizabeth Missimer , Lawrence J. Tabas , Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Patricia J. Kiniry, Appellant.

Gerald P. Neugebauer Jr. , Neugebauer, Swope & Swope, P.C., J. Dennis Previte , Ebensburg, for Salvatore "Sam" J. Valenty, Appellee.

Prior report: 610 Pa. 409, .


ORDER

PER CURIAM.

The appeal from the order of the Commonwealth Court is hereby DISMISSED as moot.

Chief Justice CASTILLE files a dissenting statement joined by Justices BAER and McCAFFERY.

Chief Justice CASTILLE, dissenting.

The Court dismisses this appeal as moot, noting the candidate's retirement from his elected position and his lack of interest in pursuing this litigation. I respectfully dissent. In my view, this case...

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