A dispute over whether Cozen O’Connor has standing to determine if it may forgive nearly $450,000 in legal expenses incurred in representing U.S. Rep. Bob Brady in a 2007 mayoral ballot challenge may be moot in 10 days, an attorney for the city’s Board of Ethics told the state Supreme Court Wednesday.

Drinker Biddle & Reath’s Gregory Miller told the court at oral argument in Cozen O’Connor v. City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics that the board was set to vote Wednesday on an amendment to a regulation promulgating the city’s campaign finance law that would allow for the debt to be forgiven by the firm in toto without violating the annual contribution limits of $10,600.

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