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STILP v. COM., GENERAL ASSEMBLY

No. 81 MAP 2007.

974 A.2d 491 (2009)

Gene STILP, Appellant v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Robert C. Jubelirer, David Brightbill, Robert Mellow, John M. Perzel, Sam Smith, H.W. DeWeese, Leadership of the General Assembly, Edward G. Rendell, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robin L. Wiessman, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 20, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Stilp, appellant pro se.

C. Clark Hodgson, Jr., Karl Stewart Myers, Jonathan F. Bloom, Thomas Walter Dymek, Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Gen. Assembly of Com. of PA; Rep. John Perzel, Rep. Sam Smith, H. Wm. DeWeese.

James Francis Tierney, IV, Cipriani & Werner, P.C., Scranton, for Robert Mellow.

John P. Krill, Jr., George A. Bibikos, Anthony Richard Holtzman, Linda J. Shorey, K & L Gates, L.L.P., Harrisburg, for President Pro Tempore and Majority Leader of the Senate.

Calvin Royer Koons, PA Office of Atty. Gen., Amanda L. Smith, for Edward G. Rendell.

Robert Forman Teplitz, PA Dept. of the Auditor Gen., for Jack Wagner.

Leonidas Pandeladis, Harrisburg, for Robin L. Weissmann.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., and SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY and GREENSPAN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice TODD.

In this appeal, Appellant Gene Stilp ("Stilp"), acting pro se, asks us to adopt an absolutist view of our Pennsylvania Constitution that would erase over 125 years of case law in his challenge of the receipt of various matters of value received by members of the General Assembly. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the orders of the Commonwealth Court dismissing Stilp...

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