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PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh investigative journalist contends that “Gag Rule” policies enacted by the Allegheny County Bureau of Corrections violate the First Amendment rights of Allegheny County Jail employees and contractors, and prevent her from developing sources to offer comment for stories detailing events which have taken place inside the jail. ....
Fed. Judge Rejects GOP Challenge To Pa. Senator s Election By By James Boyle Law360 (January 12, 2021, 2:58 PM EST) A Democratic Pennsylvania state senator blocked from his swearing-in ceremony last week by the Republican majority was lawfully reelected in the November election, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Federal District Judge Nicholas Ranjan in Pennsylvania s Western District sided with the Allegheny County Board of Elections that the county s undated mail-in ballots are valid and should be counted. The decision upholds an opinion from the state Supreme Court and keeps intact Sen. Jim Brewster s slim victory over challenger Nicole Ziccarelli in the 45th Senate District. Senate Pro Tem Jake Corman tweeted Tuesday afternoon that Brewster would be sworn-in Wednesday at 11 a.m. ....
Pa. GOP Cite Lawsuit To Block State Senator s Swearing-In By By Matthew Santoni Law360 (January 5, 2021, 6:22 PM EST) Republicans in Pennsylvania s state Senate temporarily evicted the lieutenant governor and refused to seat a Democrat from a suburban Pittsburgh district during the Legislature s first session of the year Tuesday because his opponent was still pursuing a federal lawsuit challenging his 69-vote win. After a party-line vote in the Republican-majority Senate removed Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman from presiding over Tuesday s swearing-in ceremonies, Senate President Pro Tem Jake Corman ordered that incumbent state Sen. Jim Brewster be excluded from the reading of official votes and the swearing-in because his opponent, Nicole Ziccarelli, had a pending federal lawsuit challenging state court rulings that allowed the counting of ballots whose outer envelopes lacked handwritten dates or addresses. ....
Adobe Stock PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County’s Health Department is looking to dismiss a complaint filed by a Pittsburgh restaurant which sued it for its allegedly unconstitutional enforcement of COVID-19 emergency orders and further stop it from being sent to bankruptcy court. The Cracked Egg, LLC of Pittsburgh first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 23 versus Allegheny County and the Allegheny County Health Department, of Pittsburgh. The Cracked Egg is a family restaurant in the Brentwood section of Pittsburgh, which argues it was negatively affected by Gov. Tom Wolf’s disaster emergency declarations and other orders associated with the coronavirus pandemic in March. ....