Cases of Public Interest
The following select documents provide quick access to information on cases of public interest in Pennsylvania.
Updates to these cases are made on a regular basis. For more information about any one of these cases, please contact the AOPC Communications staff.
Specific Election 2024 related appellate and county-level cases can be found on our Election 2024 page.
Specific Election 2022 related appellate and county-level cases can be found on our Election 2022 page.
Specific Election 2020 related appellate and county-level cases can be found on our Election 2020 page.
Members of the media wishing to be added to the contact list for updates and information on election cases, please email Stacey.Witalec@pacourts.us or Kimberly.Bathgate@pacourts.us.
Supreme Court
The following cases are taking place in the Supreme Court:
- Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. PA Department of Human Services - 26 MAP 2021
- 9 MAP 2023 - Borough of West Chester v. PA State System of Higher Education and West Chester University
- Investigating Grand Jury 15 EM 2022
- Krasner v. Ward
- 3 MAP 22 Fulton County
- No. 736 Civil Procedural Rules Docket (Venue)
- 73 MM 2022 - Gov. Wolf and Sec. Chapman v. PA General Assembly
- 67 MAP 2022 - McCormick, D., et al v. Chapman, L., et al
- 46 MM 2022 - McCormick v Chapman
- General primary election 2022
- 45 MAP 2022
- Reapportionment cases
- Redistricting cases
- Doug McLinko V Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of State
- Redistricting cases 141 and 142 MM 2021
- Jacob Doyle Corman, III, et al. v. Acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health
- Petition of Maureen Faulkner 125 EM 2019
- League of Women Voters of PA, et al. v. Boockvar, et al.
- Gass, Bennett, & Koch, et al. v. 52nd Judicial District, Lebanon County
- Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, et al. Pets. v. Commonwealth Arraignment Ct.
- Cases regarding Court's Extraordinary Jurisdiction or King’s Bench and the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment
- Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury
- League of Women Voters, et al. v. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. – 159 MM 2017
- Commonwealth v. William Henry Cosby, Jr.
Superior Court
The following cases are taking place in the Superior Court:
Commonwealth Court
The following cases are taking place in the Commonwealth Court:
- 8 MD 2024 - Krasner v. Henry
- 1 MD 2024 - Gene Stilp v. Scott Perry
- 277 MD 2021 - County of Fulton v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
- 588 MD 2022 - Cutler v. Chapman (Allegheny Co.)
- Gov. Wolf v. General Assembly - 482 MD 2022
- Krasner v. Ward - 563 MD 2022
- 450 MD 2022 - Phila District Attorney's Office v. The Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order
- General Election 2022
- 364 MD 2022 - Bonner v. Chapman
- 355 MD 2022 - Chapman v. Berks, Fayette, Lancaster Boards of Elections
- 301 MD 2022 - Republican Senate Nominee
- 286 MD 2022 - McCormick v Chapman
- 109 MD 2022 - I-83 John Harris Memorial Bridge
- General Primary Election 2022
- William Penn School District, et al v. PA Department of Education, et al
- Election Matter 22 MD 2022
- Redistricting cases 464 and 465 MD 2021
- Consolidated cases 310 M.D. 2021, 322 M.D. 2021 and 323 M.D. 2021
- Corman, Topper, Calvary Academy, Hillcrest Christian Academy, Reich, McClure, Baptiste, Baldacci, Neiman and Palmer, individually and as parents of minor school children v. Acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health
- J.W., S.H., C.H., N.J., R.M., and C.A. individually and on behalf of minor children v. Allison Beam
- Doug McLinko v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of State, and Veronica Degraffenreid
- Donald J. Trump for President Inc. v. Philadelphia County Board of Elections
- Commonwealth v. William Henry Cosby, Jr.
- National Election Defense Coalition, et al. v. Kathy Boockvar, Secretary of the Commonwealth
- League of Women Voters of PA, et al. v. Boockvar, et al.
- Gass, Bennett, & Koch, et al. v. 52nd Judicial District, Lebanon County
- Commonwealth v. UPMC and Highmark, Inc.
County Courts
The following cases are taking place in county courts:
- Commonwealth v. Mangione (Blair County)
- Commonwealth v. Hoagland/Warren (Chester County)
- Commonwealth v. Watkins (Mercer County)
- Commonwealth v. Mancuso (Clearfield County)
- Commonwealth v. Danilo Cavalcante (Chester County)
- Lebanon Triple Homicide
- Commonwealth v. Margera (Chester County)
- Commonwealth v. Kohberger (Monroe County)
- Commonwealth v. William Henry Cosby, Jr.