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SNIDER ET AL. v. SHAPP ET AL.

No. 55 C.D. 1979.

45 Pa.Commw. 337 (1979)

Obie Snider et al., Petitioners v. Milton J. Shapp, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

August 31, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael I. Levin, with him William Fearen, and Cleckner & Fearen, for petitioners.

Robert B. Hoffman, Deputy Attorney General, with him Norman J. Watkins, Deputy Attorney General, for respondents.

Bruce A. Rosenfield, with him, of counsel, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, for amicus curiae, Common Cause.

Argued June 5, 1979, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS, CRAIG and MacPHAIL. Judges BLATT and DiSALLE did not participate.

OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, JR., August 31, 1979:

On October 4, 1978, the Governor signed into law what is popularly known as the "Public Officials Ethics Law" (herein simply the Ethics Law or Act)1 proscribing certain conduct involving conflicts of interest and to that end requiring that candidates for public office, elected officials and certain appointed officials file financial disclosure statements with a State Ethics Commission ...

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