Commonwealth Ex Rel. Specter v. Moak

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to classify Philadelphia assistant district attorneys as state officers simply because they enforce Commonwealth penal laws of state-wide application \in the name of the Commonwealth\
• city charter provision prohibiting officers or employees of the city from becoming candidates for public office unless they first resigned upheld.
• court found that prohibition in Philadelphia Home Rule Charter prohibiting city employees from running for elective public office was a permissible restriction of first amendment rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).