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872 A.2d 170

Brady v. Cortes

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 21, 2005

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 2005-04-21

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2014

5 state decisions

Relies on Jackson v. Davis

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Robert J. BRADY, Individually and on Behalf of Democratic Executive Committee of Philadelphia and Vito F. Canuso, Individually and on Behalf of Republican City Committee, Appellees
v.
Pedro A. CORTES, Secretary of the Commonwealth and Harry A. Vansickle, Commissioner of Elections, Appellants.

¶1Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 21, 2005.

¶2Howard Greeley Hopkirk, John G. Knorr, Susan Jane Forney, Calvin Royer Koons, Harrisburg, for Pedro A. Cortes, Secty. of the Comm. and Harry A. Vansickle, Com'r of Elections, appellants.

¶3Gregg R. Melinson, Philadelphia, for Robert J. Brady, appellee.

¶4Steven S. Kaplin, for Democratic Executive Committee of Philadelphia, appellee.

¶5Michael P. Meehan, Philadelphia, for Vito F. Canuso, Jr., appellee.

¶6Louis Lawrence Boyle, for Bureau of Elections.

¶7BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and BAER, JJ.

¶8

ORDER

¶9PER CURIAM.

¶10AND NOW, this 21st day of April, 2005, the order of the Commonwealth Court is hereby AFFIRMED.

¶11Chief Justice CAPPY and Justice EAKIN dissent on the basis of Jackson v. Davis,507 Pa. 626, 493 A.2d 687 (1985).

¶12Justice NIGRO did not participate in the consideration or decision of this matter.

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