City of Philadelphia v. Lerner

In this case, the City of Philadelphia came into a Pennsylvania court, forthrightly admitted in its case-in-chief that its claim lacked any evidentiary basis and that the claimed amount was entirely arbitrary and a complete fiction, but nevertheless demanded that the court enter judgment in its favor (which it did). The Majority, in robotic adherence to a rule of efficiency, and without even a mention of this Court’s overarching duty to protect and maintain public confidence in the integrity of Pennsylvania’s court system, implicitly blesses the City’s fraudulent behavior. Because this Court…