LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS v. COM.

No. 159 MM 2017.

175 A.3d 282 (2018)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA, Carmen Febo San Miguel, James Solomon, John Greiner, John Capowski, Gretchen Brandt, Thomas Rentschler, Mary Elizabeth Lawn, Lisa Isaacs, Don Lancaster, Jordi Comas, Robert Smith, William Marx, Richard Mantell, Priscilla McNulty, Thomas Ulrich, Robert McKinstry, Mark Lichty, Lorraine Petrosky, Petitioners v. The COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania; The Pennsylvania General Assembly; Thomas W. Wolf, in his capacity as Governor of Pennsylvania; Michael J. Stack III, in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and President of the Pennsylvania Senate; Michael C. Turzai, in his capacity as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Joseph B. Scarnati III, in his capacity as Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore; Robert Torres, in his capacity as Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Jonathan M. Marks, in his capacity as Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation of the Pennsylvania Department of State, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: January 22, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew David Bergman, Esq. , Michael Churchill, Esq. , Benjamin David Geffen, Esq. , Public Interest Law Center, John Arak Freedman, Esq. , David Paul Gersch, Esq. , Daniel Frederick Jacobson, Esq. , R. Stanton Jones, Esq. , Mary M. McKenzie, Esq. , John Robinson, Esq. , Elisabeth S. Theodore, Esq. , for Petitioners.

Mark Alan Aronchick, Esq. , Claudia De Palma, Esq. , Michele D. Hangley, Esq. , Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Jonathan F. Bloom, Esq. , Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, L.L.P., Effrem Mark Braden, Esq. , Ian Blythe Everhart, Esq. , Kathleen Marie Kotula, Esq. , Pennsylvania Department of State, Timothy James Ford, Esq. , Kathleen A. Gallagher, Esq. , Russell David Giancola, Esq. , John E. Hall, Esq. , Carolyn Batz McGee, Esq. , Jason Raymond McLean, Esq. , Cipriani & Werner, P.C., Timothy Eugene Gates, Esq. , Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel, Matthew Hermann Haverstick, Esq. , Mark Edward Seiberling, Esq. , Joshua John Voss, Esq. , Kleinbard LLC, Thomas Paul Howell, Esq. , Governors Office of General Counsel, Alex Michael Lacey, Esq. , Clifford B. Levine, Esq. , Alice Birmingham Mitinger, Esq. , Cohen & Grigsby, P.C., Patrick T. Lewis, Esq. , Karl Stewart Myers, Esq. , Lazar Melton Palnick, Esq. , Lazar M. Palnick, Esq. , Brian S. Paszamant, Esq. , Jason Adam Snyderman, Esq. , John Patrick Wixted, Esq. , Blank Rome LLP, Shawn Sheehy, Esq. , Lawrence J. Tabas, Esq. , Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, Jason Torchinsky, Esq. , Robert J. Tucker, Esq. , Rebecca Lee Warren, Esq. , for Respondents.

Irwin William Aronson, Esq. , John R. Bielski, Esq. , Lauren Miller Hoye, Esq. , Amy Louise Rosenberger, Esq. , Ralph J. Teti, Esq. , Alaine S. Williams, Esq. , Willig, Williams & Davidson, for AFSCME Council 13, et al., Amicus Curiae.

Robert A. Atkins, Esq. , Andrew J. Ehrlich, Esq. , Nicholas Groombridge, Esq. , Michael Pernick, Esq. , Pietro Signoracci, Esq. , for Political Science Professors, Amicus Curiae.

Richard L. Bazelon, Esq. , Bazelon Less & Feldman, P.C., for The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, Amicus Curiae.

Martin Jay Black, Esq. , Dechert LLP, for Common Cause, Amicus Curiae.

Thomas M. Bondy, Esq. , Hannah Garden-Monheit, Esq. , Alison Melissa Kilmartin, Esq. , E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Esq. , for Grofman, Bernard, Amicus Curiae and Gaddie, Ronald Keith, Amicus Curiae.

Edward Diver, Esq. , Peter E. Leckman, Esq. , Langer Grogan & Diver, P.C., for Campaign Legal Center, Amicus Curiae.

James Christopher Martin, Esq. , Traci Sands Rea, Esq. , Colin Emmet Wrabley, Esq. , Reed Smith LLP, for The Pittsburgh Foundation, Amicus Curiae.

Witold J. Walczak, Esq. , American Civil Liberties Union, for American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, Amicus Curiae and American Civil Liberties Union, National, Amicus Curiae.

Jordan Berson Yeager, Esq. , Curtin & Heefner LLP, for Arceneaux, Kevin, Amicus Curiae, Beveridge, Andrew, Amicus Curiae, Burden, Barry, Amicus Curiae, Fraga, Bernard, Amicus Curiae, Green, Donald, Amicus Curiae, Handley, Lisa, Amicus Curiae, Harrison, Allison, Amicus Curiae, Hojnacki, Marie, Amicus Curiae, Hopkins, Daniel, Amicus Curiae, Kanthak, Kristin, Amicus Curiae, Kimball, David, Amicus Curiae, Lelkes, Yphtach, Amicus Curiae, Meredith, Marc, Amicus Curiae, Nall, Clayton, Amicus Curiae, Rohde, David, Amicus Curiae, Schickler, Eric, Amicus Curiae, Shineman, Victoria, Amicus Curiae, White, Ariel, Amicus Curiae, Vander Wielen, Ryan, Amicus Curiae, Woon, Jonathan, Amicus Curiae, Zorn, Christopher, Amicus Curiae and Political Science Professors, Amicus Curiae.


ORDER

AND NOW, this 22nd day of January, 2018, upon consideration of the Petition for Review, the Commonwealth Court's proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, the briefs of the parties, intervenors, and amici curiae, and the oral argument presented on...

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