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McCUTCHEON v. STATE ETHICS COMM.

Nos. 1599 C.D. 1982 and 1616 C.D. 1982.

77 Pa.Commw. 529 (1983)

Edward G. McCutcheon, Jr., Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State Ethics Commission, Respondent. Elroy J. Hoak, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State Ethics Commission, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 14, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Godlewski, Godlewski & Rathgeb, for petitioners.

Sandra S. Christianson, General Counsel, for respondent.

Thomas L. Wenger, with him Thomas W. Bergen, Wix, Wenger & Weidner, for Amici Curiae, Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, Robert Daws, Robert Hill and Bruce Henry, Trustees.

Edward L. Springer, with him Samuel R. Grego, Springer & Perry, for Amicus Curiae, Columbia Life Insurance Company.

Argued May 10, 1983, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges WILLIAMS, JR., CRAIG, MacPHAIL and DOYLE.

OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, October 14, 1983:

Elroy J. Hoak and Edward G. McCutcheon, Jr., former elected supervisors of Allegheny Township, a second class township, appeal an order of the State Ethics Commission. We must decide if the commission was correct in concluding that they used their public office to obtain financial gain in violation of section 3(a) of the Ethics Act.1

Specifically, the commission found that Hoak, who had...

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