Lightsee v. First National Bank of Melbourne

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• recognizing that the General Assembly is the arbiter of what is “necessary to the orderly, fair, and efficient administration of public elections in Pennsylvania”
• holding that Pennsylvania courts may not resort to principles of equity to override “the express statutory command that the failure of a candidate for statewide public office to file a timely statement of financial interests . . . (continued…
• reversing the Commonwealth Court’s rejection, on equitable grounds, of a petition to set aside a candidate’s nomination petition based upon the candidate’s failure to file a statement of financial interests
• “[T]he judiciary should act with restraint, in the election arena, subordinate to express statutory directives.”
• candidate not excused from filing timely financial statement through principles of equity, even if the election office provided him with misleading information
• equitable relief was not warranted when candidate’s failure to file timely statement of financial interests with Pennsylva- nia ethics commission was result of candidate’s inad- vertence

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