They are reform-minded. They are energetic. They are (relatively) younger. They are the three newly elected Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices, who are set to join the court in January 2016, returning that court to full strength for the first time in seemingly forever.
One of the three justices-elect, state Superior Court Judge David Wecht, campaigned on a five-point plan focused largely on judicial ethics reform, a goal that I and apparently many others strongly support. Along the same lines, as someone who has focused on the output and performance of federal and state appellate courts for the past 25 years, I am devoting this month’s column to my own five-point plan intended to improve the quality and timeliness of the state Supreme Court’s decision-making process. If Pennsylvania’s highest court were to implement some or all of the following five proposals, surely many attorneys and litigants would be more satisfied with that court’s output and overall performance.
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