The state Supreme Court overturned a 128-year-old decision that distinguished a city ordinance reducing an elected official’s salary from the type of legislative enactment barred by the prohibition on mid-term compensation changes in the Pennsylvania Constitution.
The unanimous decision in Buckwalter v. Phoenixville, PICS Case No. 10-2191 (Pa. Dec. 28, 2009) Eakin, J.; Saylor, J., concurring (10 pages), holds that a trial court relied on an erroneous decision when it upheld the constitutionality of an ordinance passed by the Borough Council of Phoenixville reducing the council members’ salaries.
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