Legal Opinion

Mezvinsky v. Davis

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 26, 1983No. 3 M.D. Misc. Dkt. 1983PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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FLAHERTY, Justice.

Pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 726 (1981), we assumed extraordinary jurisdiction of this petition for review brought by Edward M. Mezvinsky in the Commonwealth Court. Petitioner challenges the constitutionality of the limited voting provision of 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 3133 (1981) as in derogation of his constitutional right as an elector to elect the judges of the Commonwealth Court.1

42 Pa.C.S.A. § 3133 (1981) provides:

Whenever two or more judges of the Commonwealth Court are to be elected pursuant to section 3131(c) (relating to selection of judicial officers for regular terms)…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Thiemann v. AllenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. CaldwellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
  2. Commonwealth v. CaldwellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
  3. Commonwealth v. Hale, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Luzerne County1985
  4. Mezvinsky v. DavisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983

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