The legal battle over a controversial ballot measure that could raise the mandatory retirement age for Pennsylvania’s judges is not yet settled, despite an exhaustive run of litigation in state court that concluded earlier this week with the question set to appear Nov. 8.
Two former chief justices, Ronald D. Castille and Stephen Zappala Sr., along with Philadelphia attorney Richard Sprague, filed a federal complaint Thursday challenging the “demonstrably misleading” wording of the ballot question. They requested that the Department of State be prevented from putting the question to voters as it stands, or that the results of the election be invalidated.
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