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PENN. STATE ASS'N. OF COUNTY COM'RS v. COM.

No. 112 WM 1992.

52 A.3d 1213 (2012)

PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, County of Allegheny, County of Bucks, County of Cumberland, County of Dauphin, County of Erie, County of Forest, County of Fulton, County of Monroe, County of Snyder, County of Tioga, Petitioners v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, General Assembly; Joseph Scarnati, III in his Official Capacity as President Pro-Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate; and Samuel H. Smith in his Official Capacity as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 26, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Knupp , Knupp Law Offices, LLC, Harrisburg, for Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners.

John E. McKeever , DLA Piper US, LLP, Allentown, for Petitioner Amicus Curiae, Committee of Seventy.

Jonathan F. Bloom , Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Christopher B. Craig , Public Consulting Group, Inc., Harrisburg, C. Clark Hodgson , Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Ronald N. Jumper , Public Consulting Group, Inc., Harrisburg, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Calvin Royer Koons , Gregory R. Neuhauser , PA Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, for Office of Attorney General.

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

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

On July 26, 1996, this Court filed an opinion granting mandamus relief and ordering the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to "enact a funding scheme for the court system on or before January 1, 1998." Pennsylvania State Ass'n. of County Comm'rs. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 545 Pa. 324, 681...

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