Legal Opinion

Concerned Citizens for Better Schools v. Brownsville Area School District

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 2, 1995PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SMITH, Judge.

Concerned Citizens for Better Schools (Concerned Citizens) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County that denied its petition for a preliminary injunction against the Brownsville Area School District (District) and its Board of Directors (School Board) to prevent the School Board from voting on a motion to close two elementary schools. The question presented is whether the requirement that whenever notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation it must also be published in the local legal newspaper, under the Newspaper Advertising Act,…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Giffear v. Johns-Manville Corp.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1993
  2. Latella v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  3. United States Steel Co. v. Allegheny CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
  4. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. SortinoCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  5. Hutskow v. WashowichCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1993

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