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· 2/17/2015

Banfield, Aplts. v. Secretary of the Com

Citations

  • 110 A.3d 155
  • 631 Pa. 229
  • 2015 Pa. LEXIS 358

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • observing that “the right to vote is fundamental and ‘pervasive of other basic civil and political rights’”
  • observing that “the right to vote is fundamental and ‘pervasive of other basic civil and political rights’”
  • stating that this Court will not develop an argument on behalf of the appellant
  • stating that “the right to vote is fundamental,” but nonetheless, “the state may enact substantial regulation containing reasonable, non-discriminatory restrictions to ensure honest and fair elections that proceed in an orderly and efficient manner”
  • stating that “the right to vote is fundamental,” but nonetheless, “the state may enact substantial regulation containing reasonable, non-discriminatory restrictions to ensure honest and fair elections that proceed in an orderly and efficient manner”
  • noting that where appellate brief “fails to develop the issue in any other meaningful fashion capable of review, that claim is waived. It is not the obligation of an appellate court to formulate [an] appellant’s arguments for him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Castille, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Todd, McCaffery, Stevens

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