Brunwasser v. Fields

OPINION

NIX, Justice.

Appellant, Allen Brunwasser, filed an original action in the Commonwealth Court to enjoin appellee, Secretary of *285the Commonwealth, from issuing a certificate of election to Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge I. Martin Wekselman. Alternatively, appellant seeks mandamus to force the Secretary to recall the certificate since it already has been issued and filed. The procedural facts underlying the instant action were succinctly set forth by President Judge Bowman in the opinion for the Commonwealth Court:1

Judge Wekselman was elected to begin service as an Allegheny County…