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BEATTIE v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY

907 A.2d 519 (2006)

Henrietta BEATTIE, Gertrude Ellis, Karen Rummel, Sandra Walls, Kenneth Pierce, and Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, on their own Behalf and on Behalf of all others Similarly Situated, Appellants v. ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pennsylvania, Daniel Onorato, Its Chief Executive and Manatron, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 11, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin Quisenberry, Pittsburgh, for Henrietta Beattie, et al.

Michael Henry Wojcik, George M. Janocsko, Pittsburgh, for Allegheny County, et al.

Before: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and BAER, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This appeal raises the question of whether taxpayers may bypass administrative remedies and maintain an equitable class action in the trial court to assert a Uniformity Clause-based challenge to the real estate assessment system used by Allegheny County.

I.

Appellants filed a class-action equitable complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, alleging that their properties had been over-assessed...

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