Friends of Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School v. Chester County Board of Assessment Appeals

I differ with the Commonwealth Court’s approach of invalidating Section 1722-A(e)(3), on the ground that it violates Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution, i.e., the Remedies Clause. A statute may be invalidated only upon the demonstration by a challenger of a plain and palpable violation of the Constitution, see, e.g., W. Mifflin Area Sch. Disk v. Zahorchak, 607 Pa. 153, 163, 4 A.3d 1042, 1048 (2010), but, as I read the Commonwealth Court’s opinion, it reversed this burden.

In this regard, in attacking the constitutionality of Section 1722-A(e)(3), Appellee/Intervenor West Chester Area…