E. Marvin Herr v. Pequea Township

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that when petitioning, “a township and its supervisors represent their constituents and facilitate their participation in the government process,” and that a contrary rule would leave a townships’ citizens “without a voice in important matters”
• rejecting plaintiff’s claim of sham litigation where opinions in underlying actions demonstrated that courts analyzed relevant issues “with care and some detail” and did not consider them “frivolous”
• “The First Amendment right to petition extends to all departments of government . . . The protection it affords thus applies . . . to petitioning state agencies”
• applications to county planning commission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).