Troiani Group & Troy Dev. Assocs., L.P. v. City of Pittsburgh Bd. of Appeals, & City of Pittsburgh

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding there was a constitutional violation where low pay for contract attorneys had led so many of those attorneys to discontinue taking on contract cases that the nineteen petitioners had no lawyer to assist them during their arraignments or bail hearings
• addressing inadequate funding for and availability of constitutionally required defense counsel by requiring dismissal of criminal charges if timely counsel was not provided
• stating proposition, rooted in earlier cases, that attorneys ordered to represent indigents “are entitled to compensation at a rate more modest than can be expected in the marketplace”
• “The right to trial counsel under art. 12 attaches at least by the time of arraignment”
• “There is no question that the right to counsel is a fundamental constitutional right . . .”
• burden of “systemic lapse” in administration of justice “is not to be borne by defendants”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).