One difference between common pleas and appellate-level clerkships may be changing in the future, although no one can say when — who signs the paychecks.
In its watershed ruling County of Allegheny v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 534 A.2d 760 (Pa. 1987), the state Supreme Court found that assigning the financial burden of common pleas courts to the counties undermined the unity of the judicial system and ordered the state to fund the courts on a timetable to be established by General Assembly legislation. Twenty years later, some county judicial employees have been moved to the state payrolls, but clerks are still paid by the county.
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