# County of Allegheny v. Commonwealth

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 7, 1987 · 517 Pa. 65

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9648955

## Case

- **Full name:** COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 7, 1987
- **Citations:** 517 Pa. 65; 534 A.2d 760; 1987 Pa. LEXIS 843
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Papadakos
- **Judges:** Papadakos, Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Hutchinson
- **Cited by:** 48 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding legislative acts requiring counties to fund the local court system to be unconstitutional

## Opinion text

PAPADAKOS, Justice, dissenting.
I believe that in the spirit of comity among equal branches of government that the Applications of the Governor and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania should be granted and we should permit them to argue their positions (in Harrisburg) vis-a-vis the Constitutional argument that they provide full funding for the entire unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania.
NIX, C.J., and McDERMOTT, J., join this dissent.

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