A handful of cases sure to have lasting effects on Pennsylvanians, including how their legislative districts will look for the next decade and how Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling will be regulated, remained undecided by the state Supreme Court in the waning days of 2012.
Meanwhile, the court will begin 2013 as it spent about half of 2012 shorthanded as Justice Joan Orie Melvin awaits trial on charges alleging she used legislative and judicial staff to perform campaign work. The result is a six-justice court, divided evenly along party lines, and a complexion that at least threatens the possibility of 3-3 split decisions leaving the intermediate appellate court’s ruling as the law of the land. That has happened twice since Orie Melvin was put on suspension.
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