· 10/10/1991
COM., STATE ETHICS COM'N v. Cresson
Citations
- 597 A.2d 1146
- 528 Pa. 339
- 1991 Pa. LEXIS 220
How courts have described this case
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- enforcing a filing deadline under the Election Code against an effort by the State Ethics Commission to enforce the Ethics Act
- finding the Election Code and Ethics Act in pari materia with respect to the requirements for filing nomination provisions
- finding the Election Code and Ethics Act in pari materia with respect to the requirements for filing nomination provisions
- aspects of the Election Code and the Ethics Act related to the same subject matter, i.e., requirements for filing a nomination petition, are in pari materia and must be construed together
- “Since the actual document the [objector] seeks to attack, i.e., the nomination petition, is a creation of the Election Code, the specific time limit imposed by the Code for objecting to such petitions must also apply.”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Zappala, Papadakos, Cappy
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