Philadelphia lawyers defending a finance company used an affidavit from the drafter of the state’s 1974 usury law to help persuade a judge to dismiss a plaintiff’s lawsuit.
The result, according to lawyers at Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, was the first written opinion in Pennsylvania holding that a class action may not be brought under the commonwealth’s usury statute.
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