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· 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

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

  • 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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