Opinion
September 27, 1988.
Richard A. Sprague, Geoffrey R. Johnson, Philip I. Weinberg, Philadelphia, for petitioner.
Edward W. Mullinix, James D. Crawford, Schnader, Harrison, Segal Lewis, Philadelphia, for Anita B. Brody.
Thomas A. Leonard, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish Kauffman, Philadelphia, for Allen Ertel.
Neil T. O'Donnell, Wilkes Barre, for Catherine Ford-Elliott.
Morey M. Myers, Gen. Counsel, Richard D. Spiegelman, Chief Deputy Gen. Counsel, Harrisburg, for Agency Liaison.
Andrew H. Cline, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Harrisburg, for Robert P. Casey, James J. Haggerty and William Boehm.
David Richman, Pepper, Hamilton Scheetz, Philadelphia, for Walter M. Cohen.
E. Barclay Cale, Jr., Thomas B. Kenworthy, Andrew D. Leipold, Morgan, Lewis Bockius, Philadelphia, for Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania, amicus curiae.
Karen M. Balaban, Harrisburg, for Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee, amicus curiae.
Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, and PAPADAKOS, JJ.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 27th day of September, 1988, the Court having assumed plenary jurisdiction and heard oral argument, the Respondents' preliminary objections are denied; the Petitioner's Application for Summary Relief is granted. The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is hereby directed to remove from the ballot in the General Election of 1988 the offices of Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. See the dissenting opinion of Justice (now Chief Justice) Nix in Cavanaugh v. Davis, 497 Pa. 351, 440 A.2d 1380 (1982).
Opinion to follow.
STOUT, J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.