Marc Levy

Marc Levy

September 05, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Voters Can Cast a Provisional Ballot if Their Mail Ballot Is Rejected, Court Says

The three-member panel ruled that nothing in state law prevented Republican-controlled Butler County from counting two voters' provisional ballots in the April 23 primary election, even if state law is ambiguous.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

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August 27, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania County Broke Law by Refusing to Tell Voters if It Rejected Their Ballot: Judge

Judge Brandon Neuman ordered Washington County to notify any voter whose mail-in ballot is rejected because of an error—such as a missing signature or missing handwritten date—so that the voter has an opportunity to challenge the decision.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

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August 21, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

RFK Jr. Shows Up Too Late to Testify in Court Against Democrats' Ballot Challenge in Pennsylvania

Kennedy showed up an hour and 40 minutes late, blaming a canceled flight from Boston to Philadelphia the previous night, and never testified after Commonwealth Court Judge Lori Dumas chose to proceed without him as a witness.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

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August 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

RFK Jr. to Defend Bid to Get on Pennsylvania Ballot Against Democrats' Challenge

Democratic Party-aligned challengers say Kennedy's candidacy paperwork states a false home address and contains other damning shortcomings, such as the wrong names of people who supposedly attested that they gathered the signatures of thousands of voters.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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July 30, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Casinos Ask Court to Force State to Tax Skill Games Found in Stores Equally to Slots

The lawsuit, filed Monday, could endanger more than $1 billion in annual tax revenue that goes toward property tax rebates and economic development projects.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

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December 06, 2023 | Daily Report Online

DC Circuit Filing Gives Rare Look Inside FBI Seizure of Lawmaker's Phone in 2020 Election Probe

It was Scott Perry's efforts to elevate Jeffrey Clark to Trump's acting attorney general—and likely reverse the Department of Justice's stance that it had found no evidence of widespread voting fraud that would change the election—that have made him a figure of interest to federal prosecutors. Clark and Trump are two of 19 defendants indicted in the Georgia 2020 election interference probe.

By Marc Levy | The Associated Press

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July 10, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's Mail-In Voting Law Is Upheld, Again

A Pennsylvania state court on June 27 rejected the latest Republican effort to throw out the presidential battleground state's broad mail-in voting law that has become a GOP target following former President Donald Trump's baseless claims about election fraud.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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February 20, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Court Won't Force Pennsylvania to Release Election Records

A Pennsylvania appellate court said Feb. 9 that it will not order Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration to produce records on voters and election systems sought by Republican lawmakers in a quest inspired by former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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January 30, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Refusal to Release Inaugural Donors Exposes Gap in Pa. Law

The refusal thus far of Gov. Josh Shapiro to disclose who paid for his glitzy inaugural bash has exposed the gap in state law that lets governors in Pennsylvania escape the kind of transparency that is sometimes required elsewhere.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

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November 21, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

Shapiro Kicks Off Transition, to Stay AG Until January

Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro gave his first Capitol news conference Nov. 16 as he begins the transition to his new job, pledging to work constructively with lawmakers and saying he will remain as attorney general until he is sworn in as governor in January.

By Marc Levy and Brooke Schultz, The Associated Press

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