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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, E.D. Pa.) is one of the original 13 federal judiciary districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789. It originally sat in Independence Hall in Philadelphia as the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania , and is now located at ...
The courts of common pleas are organized into 60 judicial districts, 53 comprising one of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, and seven comprising two counties. Each district has from one to 101 judges. Judges of the common pleas courts are elected to ten-year terms. A president judge and a court administrator serve in each judicial district. In ...
Chesney was born on October 29, 1942, in San Francisco, California. [2] [3] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1967. She was an attorney, Office of the San Francisco District Attorney, California ...
Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2008–2015) Kevin Dougherty May 19, 1962 (age 62) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 4, 2016 Democratic: First term 2025 May 19, 2037 Judge, Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (2001–2015) David Wecht May 20, 1962 (age 62) in Baltimore, Maryland: January 4, 2016 Democratic: First term
A Republican-controlled county in Pennsylvania violated state law when election workers refused to tell voters that their mail-in ballot had been rejected and wouldn't be counted in last April's ...
The First Judicial District, in Philadelphia, has a specialized business court docket, the Commerce Case Management Program, first established in 1999 by administrative order of Judge John W. Herron, as does the Fifth Judicial District in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), the Commerce and Complex Litigation Center, [3] originally led by Judges R ...
How Galloway is going from PA state rep to judge Upon the announcement that longtime DJ Jan Vislosky would retire from her role in January, Galloway ran and won the slot in November's election.
This is a list of former and current non-federal courthouses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each of the 67 counties in the Commonwealth has a city or borough designated as the county seat where the county government resides, including a county courthouse for the court of general jurisdiction, the Court of Common Pleas. Other courthouses are used by the three state-wide appellate courts ...