Commonwealth Court

A state court is stopping a Philadelphia ordinance that requires gun owners to tell police when a firearm has been lost or stolen

Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled on the eve of balloting Monday that state elections officials will not count or certify the results of a voter referendum on a victims’ rights constitutional amendment.

Actor Kelsey Grammer has been appearing in a political ad but not because he is on the ballot. He is pushing for a crime victim amendment called Marsy’s Law in Pennsylvania. NBC10’s Steven Fisher has the details on what you should know about the law before voting on your ballot.

A judge ruled Wednesday that votes in a referendum next week about enshrining victims’ rights in Pennsylvania’s constitution will not be tallied or certified while a legal challenge is pending.

Lawyers challenging a ballot question about enshrining victims’ rights in the Pennsylvania Constitution asked a judge Wednesday to stop the votes from being counted while their lawsuit proceeds, while the state argued an injunction would confuse voters and could affect the result.

Pennsylvania’s highest court has agreed to consider whether state police should have to disclose more details about how they use information from social media to investigate crimes and make their own hiring decisions.

An appeals court has ruled that Pennsylvania’s religious freedom law needs to be considered more fully in a case about a township’s efforts to make an Amish woman stop using outhouses and hook into its sewer system.

Pennsylvania asks court to block request for Amazon records.

Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor is staying on the ballot after a judge rejected a claim that he falsely listed his mother’s home as his residence on election records when he actually lives in a state-owned mansion at Fort Indiantown Gap.

Attorneys for the governor, education officials and top lawmakers argue that the state is fulfilling its duties and that the lawsuit raises political questions that courts shouldn’t answer.

A Pennsylvania man who claimed he was fired for refusing to wear a company T-shirt isn’t entitled to unemployment compensation.

Pennsylvania’s highest court on Thursday revived a lawsuit that claims the state is failing in its obligation to students, a case that could eventually have a dramatic effect on the shape of public education in the state.

The League of Women Voters is leading a new lawsuit seeking to throw out the map of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts as an unconstitutional gerrymander that favors Republicans and violates the rights of Democratic voters.

The city is lowering its projections for revenue from Philadelphia’s new tax on sweetened drinks, saying it will bring in less than had been anticipated.

The lead plaintiff in the ongoing battle to have Lower Merion School District lower its 2016-2017 tax rate says the district has yet to abide by court rulings, and taxpayers are paying the price again.

For taxpayers interested in seeing how their district stacks up when it comes to money kept in reserve, a Pennsylvania think tank has an arrangeable list of every district.

Pennsylvania primary voters picked nominees for four open seats on the state’s appellate-level Superior Court in Tuesday’s election, while Democrats also settled their nominees in a big field running for two open seats on Commonwealth Court.

A civil rights lawyer who has defended Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia protesters is poised to become Philadelphia’s next district attorney.

Races for appellate court seats, the only statewide contests on the ballot in the Pennsylvania primary this month, are often derided as low-information contests, but it doesn’t have to be that way.