Pennsylvania judges can’t order the losers in election challenges to pay for the costs of the litigation simply because they lost the case, the state Supreme Court ruled last week.
In a companion opinion over litigation involving state Sen. Lawrence M. Farnese Jr.’s nomination petition, a plurality of the Supreme Court suggested a prospective rule that when candidates withdraw a large number of signatures they themselves collected for their nomination petitions, objectors can argue the entire nomination may be invalid.
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