Commonwealth ex rel. Judicial Conduct Board v. Griffin

OPINION

Chief Justice CAPPY.

Petitioner, the Judicial Conduct Board, brings an Application for Leave to File Original Process, seeking leave to proceed with a Complaint in Quo Warranto to declare Respondent, Deborah Shelton Griffin, unqualified for the Office of Judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court of Philadelphia County. Upon receipt of the Application, this court directed the parties to brief and argue three questions: 1) Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has original jurisdiction over the- quo *89warranto action; 2) Whether the Judicial Conduct Board has standing to bring the quo…