PMC's debate between the Supreme Court candidates will be airing on PCN-TV on  Monday Oct 26 at 10:00  pm; Thursday Oct. 29 at 10:00 pm; Sunday Nov. 1 at 3:00 pm; and Monday Nov. 2 at 4:00 pm.

PMC Associate Director Shira Goodman will appear on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) on Sunday to talk about the upcoming judicial elections.  Goodman joins Professor John Gedid of Widener Law School and Chet Harhut of the Department of State on PCN's In Session this Sunday at 6:00.  The sho

PMC, the League of Women Voters of PA and the Temple University Beasley School of Law Student Bar Association co-sponsored a debate between the candidates running for the vacancy on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.  The candidates, Superior Court Judges Jack Panella and Joan Orie Melvin, answered questions about campaign contributions, recusal decisions, the Luzerne County Courthouse scanda

This afternoon, PMC is co-sponsoring (with the League of Women Voters of PA, the Student Bar Association of the Temple University Beasley School of Law, Temple Law Republicans and Temple Law Democrats) a debate between the Supreme Court candidates.  Some have questioned why we are doing so in light of our efforts to replace judicial elections with a Merit Se

Earlier this month, an editorial in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era “salute[d] the effort” to bring Merit Selection to the Pennsylvania appellate courts.  In response, PMC submitted a letter affi

In a letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, PMC weighs in on the ongoing litigation regarding the funding of the Unified Judicial System.  Written in response to an Inquirer editorial on the litigation, PMC not

Get ready for Election Day by attending the Supreme Court Candidate Debate sponsored by PMC, the League of Women Voters of PA and the Student Bar Association of Temple University Beasely School of Law. The debate is October 22 at 12:15 and will feature candidates Joan Orie Melvin and Jack Panella.

On October 13, 2009, PMC will participate in "After Caperton: Judicial Elections and Ethics," presented by the Philadelphia Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society. In addition to PMC, the Honorable James Gardner Collins, a former Commonwealth Court judge, and Victor A.

Election day is November 3, and there are four vacancies on the Superior Court. The candidates are Republicans Sallie Updyke Mundy, Judith Olson, Paula Ott, and Templeton Smith, Jr;  Democrats Robert J. Colville, Anne E. Lazarus, Kevin Francis McCarthy and Teresa Sarmina; and Libertarian Marakay Rogers.

Election Day is November 3, and it's a busy election year.