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Dec 04
Pay court-ordered fines, fees, costs or restitution from the comfort of your own home or office. The state court system offers...
Dec 03
Gov. Thomas Corbett has nominated Delaware County Judge Patricia Jenkins to a vacancy on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. J...
Nov 21
A veteran Luzerne County attorney has been named chief legal counsel for the AOPC’s Legal Department, Court Administrator...
Nov 21
Supreme Court Justice Debra Todd presented Allegheny County Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski with a certificate of accreditation for the...
Nov 12
Want to help former servicemen and servicewomen who come into contact with the criminal justice system? Pennsylvania’s j...
Nov 08
Pennsylvania voters have chosen to retain four appellate court jurists. Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille and J...
Nov 06
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille announced that 47 claimants who were allegedly bilked by a Wilkes-Barre attorne...
Oct 30
Two Supreme Court justices seeking retention will appear this week on special editions of the Pennsylvania Cable Network’s...
Oct 28
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille joined other top court leaders from neighboring Maryland and West Virginia to b...
Oct 21
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille has issued a statement refuting claims in a new book that the Supreme Court of...
Oct 09
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has announced the appointment of Superior Court Judge Jack A. Panella to the Court of Judicial...
Sep 23
Representatives from Singapore’s Office of Public Guardian traveled halfway around the world to learn more about practices...
Sep 17
Commonwealth Court President Judge Dan Pellegrini has granted the state Department of Health’s petition seeking to compel...
Sep 12
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session on Sept. 13 in Reading, where a three-judge panel is schedule...
Sep 09
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille said today that rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 2012 are...
Sep 06
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has decided to move three cases previously set for a special session at Dallas High School in Lu...
Aug 29
Pennsylvania Supreme Court courtrooms in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Harrisburg are featured in a new book about state courthou...
Aug 22
A Common Pleas Court judge narrowly escaped the deadly bomb blasts at this year’s Boston Marathon. Read his first-person...
Aug 13
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has elected Judge John T. Bender as president of the 15-member intermediate appellate court. P...
Aug 13
An increasing number of courts are implementing rules to control the use of new media like Facebook and Twitter in the courtroom...
Aug 08
The number of abused and neglected children placed in foster care or temporary living arrangements throughout Pennsylvania conti...
Aug 07
Zygmont Pines, court administrator of Pennsylvania, has been named president of the Conference of State Court Administrators and...
Aug 02
Former Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens became the newest member of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Tuesday...
Jul 31
Visitors to the Unified Judicial System website consistently are viewing the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s opinions and...
Jul 30
The Pennsylvania Judiciary is launching a new system across the Commonwealth to track problem-solving court case results that ar...
Jul 17
Ever wonder where the money from a traffic ticket goes? A summary of fees and costs associated with moving traffic viola...
Jul 17
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania today is continuing its consideration of a challenge to Pennsylvania’s voter/photo...
Jul 15
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed C. Robert Keenan III, Esq., to the Board of Law Examiners. Keenan, of Alleghen...
Jul 11
Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens will fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following his confirmation by the Pe...
Jul 01
The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously recommended that the full Senate consider the nomination of Superi...
Jun 27
State legislation signed by Gov. Tom Corbett earlier this week transferred the authority of the Philadelphia Traffic Court to th...
Jun 21
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille today issued the following statement on Governor Tom Corbett’s signing of...
Jun 19
Gov. Thomas Corbett has appointed Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens to the vacancy on the Supreme Court of Penn...
Jun 14
More than $100 million in traffic fines and other court-ordered fines, costs and restitution has been collected over the last tw...
Jun 10
A special program and reception were held on June 5 in Pittsburgh, as Duquesne University School of Law and the Pennsylvania Int...
Jun 05
Audio clips of the chief justice are available on the UJS website The latest available medical malpractice case information re...
Jun 04
@PACourts has reached a Twitter milestone of 2,000 followers. Our followers get the latest information about the state courts...
Jun 03
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has adopted new rules that will, for the first time, require uniform policies, procedures and...
May 28
Audio clips of the chief justice and an infographic are available on the UJS website. In 2012, thousands of youth performed un...
May 22
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille spoke at a state Senate Judiciary Committee hearing studying the need for civil...
May 18
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed Allegheny County Judge Kim Berkeley Clark to the Domestic Relations and Juvenile...
May 13
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will hold a “mega seminar” for the Pennsylvania State Police and local police dep...
May 06
EDITORS NOTE: Radio actualities and an informational graphic regarding this topic are available on the Judiciary’s media r...
May 02
As part of the celebration of Law Week, April 29 – May 3, the Supreme Court has partnered with the Pennsylvania Library As...
May 01
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has formed an Elder Law Task Force, chaired by Justice Debra Todd, to study the growing proble...
Apr 18
During this 50th anniversary year of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision establishing the right to counsel for the indige...
Apr 11
Joseph Evers, a 40-year veteran of the Philadelphia court system, has been named interim court administrator of Pennsylvania&rsq...
Apr 10
NOTE: Audio actualities from Chief Justice Castille are available Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille today prese...
Apr 08
A substantial overhaul of the current Orphans’ Court Procedural Rules, which have remained relatively intact for nearly fo...
Apr 03
Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens will chair a three-judge argument court panel on campus at the University of...
Mar 26
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille was today’s featured speaker at the Pennsylvania Press Club where he talk...
Mar 25
In a letter to Gov. Tom Corbett, Justice Joan Orie Melvin today resigned her seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, effective M...
Mar 25
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today announced the appointment of Tracey McCants Lewis, Esq., to the Pennsylva...
Mar 22
The Pennsylvania Superior Court will hold a special session in the Beaver County Courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2 an...
Mar 22
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has appointed Stephanie S. Libhart as executive director of the IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers Trust...
Mar 13
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed Allegheny County Judge Kim Berkeley Clark to the Juvenile Court Procedural Rules...
Mar 08
Hundreds of aspiring lawyers took the February 2013 Pennsylvania Bar Exam. Prospective attorneys took the exam over a two-day...
Mar 06
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has reappointed Superior Court Judge Anne E. Lazarus to the Judicial Conduct Board. Judge La...
Mar 05
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has begun issuing orders that reshape magisterial district court boundaries statewide to adapt...
Feb 27
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session of its argument court in Lipkin Theatre of Northampton Community...
Feb 20
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today announced the appointment of Simquita R. Bridges, Esq., to the Criminal Procedural Rules...
Feb 19
Magisterial district and Common Pleas criminal courts throughout Pennsylvania collected and disbursed to the state, counties, mu...
Feb 19
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed Anthony Charles Aliano, Esq., to the Continuing Legal Education Board. Aliano,...
Feb 11
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today unveiled an interactive website feature that, for the first time, will give the public a...
Feb 10
Philadelphia attorney Philip Yoon will become Superior Court Chief Staff Attorney on March 25, President Judge Correale F. Stevens...
Feb 06
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has accredited Lackawanna County’s adult drug court. The designation is part of an effort...
Feb 05
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today indefinitely suspended three judges who presided over Philadelphia Traffic Court cases,...
Feb 01
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin issued the following statement today in light of federal...
Jan 31
Military veterans facing incarceration for minor criminal charges would have the option of supervised treatment under a pilot pr...
Jan 25
The website (www.pacourts.us) now contains expenditure and compensation information. In addition, electronic docket sheets for mor...
Jan 25
