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SCARNATI v. WOLF

No. 3 MAP 2016.

173 A.3d 1110 (2017)

Joseph B. SCARNATI, Senator and President Pro Tempore of the Senate of Pennsylvania; Jake Corman, Senator and Majority Leader of the Senate of Pennsylvania; Jay Costa, Senator and Minority Leader of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Appellants, v. Tom WOLF, Governor of Pennsylvania; Randy Albright, Secretary of the Budget; Timothy A. Reese, State Treasurer of Pennsylvania; Dennis M. Davin, Secretary of Community and Economic Development; Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources; John H. Quigley, Secretary of Environmental Protection; Curtis M. Topper, Secretary of General Services; Kathy Manderino, Secretary of Labor & Industry; Major General James R. Joseph, Adjutant General of Pennsylvania; Josh Shapiro, Chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: November 22, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney A. Corey, Esq. , James Guthrie Mann, Esq. , Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Tara Lynn Hazelwood, Esq. , Jason Michael Staloski, Esq. , Nora Winkelman, Esq. , for Amicus Curiae Republican and Democratic Caucuses of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Anthony Richard Holtzman, Esq. , John P. Krill Jr., Esq. , K & L Gates LLP, for Appellants.

Mark Alan Aronchick, Esq. , Dylan Joshua Steinberg, Esq. , Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, P.C., for Governor of Pennsylvania and Secretary of the Budget, Appellee.

Linda Cadden Barrett, Esq. , Denise Joy Smyler, Esq. , Office of General Counsel, for Thomas Wolf, Governor of PA, et al, Appellee.

Christopher B. Craig, Esq. , Kathryn Cerulli Joyce, Esq. , PA Department of Treasury, Christopher Patrick Donahue, Esq. , for Pennsylvania Treasury Department, Appellee.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.

OPINION

In a petition for review filed in the Commonwealth Court's original jurisdiction, a group of state senators ("the Senators") challenged as unconstitutional the Governor's partial disapproval of the General Appropriations Act of 2014 ("GAA")1 and the 2014 Fiscal...

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