ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 23rd day of August, 2017, the Application for Leave to File Original Process is GRANTED, and the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Motion for Judgment and Injunctive Relief are DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 16th day of August, 2017, the Petition for Leave to File Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. Although counsel was negligent, Petitioner is entitled to a counsel-filed Petition for Allowance of Appeal. See Pa.R.Crim.P. 122. Counsel is directed to file the already-prepared Petition for Allowance of Appeal within five days.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 4th day of December, 2017, the Application for Leave to File a Petition for Allowance of Appeal Nunc Pro Tunc is GRANTED. Counsel is instructed to file an allocatur petition within 30 days.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 18th day of December, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 29th day of December, 2017, this matter is listed for oral argument at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, January 17, 2018, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 29th day of December, 2017, the Application for Leave to File Original Process is GRANTED, and the Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 6th day of December, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 5th day of December, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 4th day of December, 2017, the Application for Leave to File Original Process is GRANTED, and the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 29 th day of November, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, the order of the Commonwealth Court, No. 1452 CD 2015, 136 A.3d 1102 , filed April 27, 2016, is VACATED, and the case is REMANDED to the Commonwealth Court for further proceedings in light of Smith v. Pa. Board of Probation and Parole, 2017 WL 4655306, ___ Pa. ___, 171 A.3d 759 (Oct. 18, 2017).
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 29th day of November, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 28th day of November, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
OPINION CHIEF JUSTICE SAYLOR . This is a direct appeal in a judicial discipline case that resulted in Appellant's removal from her office as a municipal court judge in Philadelphia. The matter was consolidated, for purposes of limited oral argument only, with In re Roca, ___ Pa. ___, ___ A.3d ___, 2017 WL 5619909 (2017), regarding the legal question of whether the Court of Judicial Discipline must apply the doctrine of stare decisis when sanctioning a jurist. I. Background In 2014,...
OPINION CHIEF JUSTICE SAYLOR . This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Judicial Discipline (the "CJD") removing Appellant from office. One issue we are asked to address is whether that tribunal must apply the doctrine of stare decisis when sanctioning a jurist. I. Background The underlying facts were developed at trial before the CJD and via stipulation. 1 At all relevant times Appellant served as a Philadelphia common pleas judge in the family division. Her term overlapped...
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 21st day of November, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 21st day of November, 2017, the Petition for Writ of Extraordinary Relief is DENIED, and the Prothonotary is DIRECTED to strike the name of the jurist from the caption.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 16th day of November, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 9 th day of November, 2017, this Honorable Court, having determined that the present case involves issues of immediate public importance requiring this Court's assumption of plenary jurisdiction, it is hereby ordered that Petitioners' Application for Extraordinary Relief is GRANTED. On October 16, 2017, the Commonwealth Court granted an Application for Stay filed by Respondents Joseph B. Scarnati, President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate,...
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 31st day of October, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED.
ORDER PER CURIAM . AND NOW, this 31st day of October, 2017, the Petition for Review is DENIED.
