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IN RE STEVENSON

No. 54 MAP 2010

40 A.3d 1212 (2012)

In re the Nomination Petitions and Papers of Carl STEVENSON as a Candidate for State Representative in the 134th Legislative District. Appeal of Carl Stevenson.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 26, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shauna Christine Graves , PA Department of State, for Amicus Curiae, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Paige Hennessey Forster , Reed Smith, L.L.P. Pittsburgh, Mary Catherine Roper , American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, Witold J. Walczak , Kim M. Watterson , Reed Smith, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, for Carl Stevenson.

Louis Lawrence Boyle , Shauna Christine Clemmer , for Bureau of Elections, Department of State.

Lawrence M. Otter , for Michael W. Gibson and Robert W. Mader.

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

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

This Opinion addresses an Application for Relief in an Election Code matter, over which this Court retained limited jurisdiction following a remand on October 4, 2010. The issue involves the effect of the District Court's decision in Morrill v. Weaver, 224 F.Supp.2d 882 (E.D.Pa.2002). The Morrill court held that Section 2911(d) of the Election Code, 25 P.S. §...

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