Pennsylvania Cases March 16, 2022: Covert v. 2021 Pa. Legislative Reapportionment Comm'n
Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Date: March 16, 2022
Case Description
278 A.3d 296 (Table)
Ryan COVERT, Darlene J. Covert, and Erik Hulick, Petitioners
v.
2021 PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT COMMISSION, Respondent
Kerry Benninghoff, Individually, and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Petitioner
v.
2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, Respondent
Lisa M. Boscola, Senator 18th District, Petitioner
v.
2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, Respondent
Eric Roe, Petitioner
v.
2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, Respondent
Ron Y. Donagi, Philip T. Gressman, Pamela Gorkin, David P. Marsh, James L. Rosenberger, Eugene Boman, Gary Gordon, Liz McMahon, Timothy Feeman, and Garth Isaak, Petitioners
v.
2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, Respondent
Gabriel Ingram, Ruth Moton, Mark Kirchgasser and Susan Powell, Petitioners
v.
2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, Respondent
Todd Elliott Koger, Petitioner
v.
2021 Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission, Respondent
Jackie Hutz, Petitioner
v.
2021 PA Legislative Reapportionment Commission, Respondent
Edward J. Kress, Petitioner
v.
2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondent
No. 4 WM 2022
No. 11 MM 2022
No. 14 MM 2022
No. 16 MM 2022
No. 17 MM 2022
No. 18 MM 2022
No. 7 WM 2022
No. 11 WM 2022
No. 12 WM 2022
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
March 16, 2022
ORDER
PER CURIAM .
AND NOW, this 16th day of March, 2022, upon consideration of the above-captioned legislative reapportionment appeals filed pursuant to PA. CONST. art. II, § 17(d) (indicating that "[a]ny aggrieved person may file an appeal from the final plan [of the 2021 Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission] directly to the Supreme Court"), this Court finds that the Final Reapportionment Plan of the Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission filed on February 4, 2022, is in compliance with the mandates of the Pennsylvania Constitution and the United States Constitution and is not contrary to law, and, therefore, shall have the force of law. See PA. CONST. art. II, § 17(d) & (e) (specifying that "[i]f the appellant establishes that the final plan is contrary to law, the Supreme Court shall issue an order remanding the plan to the commission" and that "[w]hen the Supreme Court has finally decided an appeal...the reapportionment plan shall have the force of law..."). Further, it is hereby ordered that said Plan shall be used in all forthcoming elections to the General Assembly until the next constitutionally-mandated reapportionment shall be approved.
All outstanding motions filed in the above-captioned matters are hereby DISMISSED.
This Court's February 23, 2022 Order, at Judicial Administration Docket No. 569, which temporarily suspended the General Primary Election calendar relative to elections for seats in the General Assembly, is VACATED. Our adjustment to that calendar is resolved by separate order at that docket number and entered today.
Jurisdiction relinquished.