# Laffey v. Court of Common Pleas

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 16, 1983 · 503 Pa. 103

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6263089

## Case

- **Full name:** Jane A.M. LAFFEY, Esquire v. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Harold E. Sheely, President Judge, Petition For a Writ of Prohibition, Etc.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 16, 1983
- **Citations:** 503 Pa. 103; 468 A.2d 1084; 1983 Pa. LEXIS 760
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Roberts
- **Judges:** Consideration, Files, Flaherty, Hutchinson, Larsen, McDermott, Nix, Roberts, Zappala
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

ROBERTS, Chief Justice,
concurring.
Petitioner, who is employed as a full-time law clerk by a member of this Court, is unable to engage in the private practice of law and is unavailable for local court appointments. Thus, the only question before this Court is the validity, in any circumstance, of Cumberland County Court Rule 458, which requires a member of the Cumberland County Bar “to devote a majority of his time to the active practice of law in Cumberland County.”
Article Y, section 10(c) of the Pennsylvania Constitution and Rule 103 of the Pennsylvania Bar Admission Rules clearly preclude local courts from regulating admissions to the bar. Accordingly, I concur in the issuance of a writ prohibiting the enforcement of Cumberland County Court Rule 458.

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