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Adobe Stock PITTSBURGH – Due to a federal judge’s ruling on Tuesday, the state senator for Pennsylvania’s 45th District comprising parts of both Allegheny and Westmoreland counties will in fact be Democratic incumbent Jim Brewster. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan denied an attempt from the campaign of Republican state Senate challenger Nicole Ziccarelli to throw out mail-in ballots submitted in Allegheny County without a listed date, finding the 311 ballots in question were valid and properly counted toward Brewster’s victory. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania had first ruled Nov. 21 in its majority decision that the undated mail-in ballots that Ziccarelli challenged should be counted in the final vote totals, in her race against Brewster. ....
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. ....