PA State Association of County Commissioners v. Pennsylvania (majority)
Annotate this CaseIn 1996, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted mandamus relief and ordered the General Assembly to enact laws to provide funding for the support of judicial system. In 1999, the General Assembly enacted legislation which effectuated the first phase of an appointed master's recommendations for implementation of the Court's directive. In late 2008, the Petitioners in this case filed a "Motion to Enforce Grant of Petition for Mandamus and Order" requesting that the Court enforce the 1996 order. Upon review of the years' of litigation since 1996 in this matter, the Supreme Court elected not to grant further mandamus relief, "and neither [was the Court] inclined to go backward and overrule [its] prior decisions rendered in light of the realities of time." The Court denied the motion to enforce and relinquished jurisdiction.
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