Legal Opinion

Markham v. Wolf

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 29, 2016PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Justice TODD.

In this interlocutory appeal, we consider whether state legislators have standing to intervene in a challenge to the issuance of an executive order concerning direct care health workers. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that, in these circumstances, they do not because the legislators’ interests purportedly impacted by the executive order do not involve unique legislative prerogatives, but, rather, are interests common to the general citizenry which only remotely impact the legislators’ right to act as legislators. Thus, we affirm the order of the Commonwealth…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Raines v. ByrdSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  3. Elk Grove Unified School District v. NewdowSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  4. Coleman v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
  5. Wm. Penn Parking Garage, Inc. v. City of PittsburghSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1975

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3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Representative Donald Turner, Jr. and Senator Joseph Benning v. Governor Peter ShumlinSupreme Court of Vermont · 2017
  2. M.J. Brouillette v. T. Wolf, GovernorCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
  3. J. Markham v. Thomas W. WolfCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2016
  4. Pirtle v. Legis. CouncilNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2021
  5. Markham v. WolfSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2018

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