Kury v. Commonwealth, State Ethics Commission

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

On January 27,1981, the State Ethics Commission (Ethics Commission) issued an opinion to Franklin L. Kury (Petitioner), a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and a former member of the Senate of Pennsylvania, holding that the Petitioner could not represent any client before the Senate or the Public Utility Commission (PUC) nor perform certain other enumerated functions before those bodies for the period of one year after the expiration of Petitioner’s term as a member of the Senate. The Ethics Commission found Section 3(e) of the Act of October 4,…