Olon v. Commonwealth

CRAIG, President Judge.

Before this court are the preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the Pennsylvania Department of General Services (departments) to the petition of Richard and Jennifer Olon (landowners) for review of the departments’ plans to build a prison in the Borough of Cambridge Springs and Cambridge Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. We overrule the objections.

The issue in this case is whether an appropriations bill naming a former college site and authorizing its acquisition and renovation for use as a state…