Legal Opinion
Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 27, 1986No. 76 E.D. Appeal Docket 1984PublishedCited by 232 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.*
In this action the Consumer Party of Pennsylvania and several citizen-taxpayers (“appellants”)1 appeal from a final order of the Commonwealth Court which upheld the consti*164tutionality of the Public Official Compensation Law of 1983 (“Compensation Law”), Act of September 30, 1983, P.L. 160, No. 39, § 1 et seq., 65 P.S. § 366.1 et seq. (Supp.1985). The Compensation Law had its genesis in Senate Bill 270 which was first introduced in the Senate on February 15, 1983 bearing the following title:
An act amending the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L. 323, No. 130), entitled ‘an…
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3Cited by232 opinions
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