holding that legislative attempt to authorize political activity by court employees was an unconstitutional infringement upon the Supreme Court’s exclusive constitutional mandate to administrate all courts and supervise all officers of the judicial branch
How later courts described this case
- holding that legislative attempt to authorize political activity by court employees was an unconstitutional infringement upon the Supreme Court’s exclusive constitutional mandate to administrate all courts and supervise all officers of the judicial branch
- concluding that a statutory provision was suspended to the extent it conflicted with a Pennsylvania Supreme Court administrative directive forbidding court employees from engaging in partisan political activity
- Section 410 of the Ethics Act (65 P.S. § 410) permits court employees to participate in partisan political activity is unconstitutional as applied to any person affected by this Courts directive forbidding partisan political activity as violative of Pa. Const. Art. V, § 10(c)
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
LARSEN, J.,
dissents and adopts the dissenting opinion of Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Williams in this case. See Fayette County v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 84 Pa.Commw. 260, 479 A.2d 1153, 1157-58 (1984) (Williams, J., dissenting).