Voters on Tuesday will have the chance to impact the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court’s future as nine seats are up for election. Thirty-nine candidates are vying for 10-year positions on the bench. Judges earn $189,794. Although there is a large slate of candidates this year, it’s not even close
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During a stop in Pittsburgh Wednesday, May 12, Governor Tom Wolf called on Pennsylvania voters to reject two ballot questions that would weaken the executive branch’s authority to declare states of emergency.
With the primary election less than a week away, Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday urged Pennsylvanians to reject two ballot initiatives that would
Speaking outside the Allegheny County Courthouse, Wolf warned that the proposals would “make the whole process of getting help when and where it s needed a lot messier … a lot more complicated, [and] a lot slower.”
“They handcuff our political system when it comes to responding to the crises that constantly surprise every society and every single political system in the world,” the governor said. “We’ve just gone through the COVID pandemic. That s a crisis, but there are crises that preceded that, and there are crises sure enough that will come after that.”
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Bissoon | PA Courts
PITTSBURGH – Litigation from a public interest law organization against a criminal court judge in Allegheny County, which claimed that the judge violated the First Amendment through preventing the plaintiff and members of the public from remotely observing criminal proceedings in his courtroom, has been settled and withdrawn.
Abolitionist Law Center first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on March 2 versus Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Anthony D. Mariani. Both parties are of Pittsburgh.
The plaintiff is a nonprofit law firm which oversees a court-watching program in Pennsylvania’s Fifth Judicial District, which includes Allegheny County. The program’s volunteers observe dozens of criminal hearings each week, in order to monitor the day-to-day operations of the County’s justice system and share those observations with local community members, advocates and journalists
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PITTSBURGH – One of a pair of Western Pennsylvania defendants opposes collusion claims made against them by a West Virginia insurer, concerning an alleged fraud in an underlying lawsuit relating to coverage upon a fatal accident.
Municipal Mutual Insurance Company of West Virginia of Wellsburg, W.Va. first filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on April 6 versus Lisa Ulizzi-Truchock of Uniontown, and Caroline A. Ulizzi (Administratrix of the Estate of Michael T. Ulizzi, deceased), of McKees Rocks.
Truchock is the named insured under an insurance policy issued to her by Municipal Mutual at Policy No. 1156-308 with effective dates of coverage of July 18, 2018 through July 18, 2019. The policy included liability insurance coverage carrying $100,000 per occurrence liability limits.