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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reappoints Five to Civil Procedural Rules Committee

June 26, 2002

HARRISBURG, June 26, 2002 — The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today announced the reappointment of five members to the Civil Procedural Rules Committee. Those reappointed to three-year terms, beginning June 30 were: Morton R. Branzburg, Esq., Philadelphia; Joseph H. Foster, Esq., Philadelphia; the Hon. George E. Hoffer, Cumberland County; Anton Henri Rosenthal, Esq., Chester County; Robert Ross, Esq., Philadelphia and the Hon. R. Stanton Wettick Jr., Allegheny County. The court also redesignated Wettick as chairman, and Foster, vice chairman, beginning June 30. The committee was created in 1937 by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to assist in the preparation, revision, promulgation, publication and administration of the rules of civil procedure governing civil actions at law and in equity for the Courts of Common Pleas. The work of the committee, which is the oldest of the Supreme Court's committees, covers all aspects of civil practice before the Courts of Common Pleas except those relating to the Orphans' Court and Family Court divisions. The Supreme Court appoints committee members to three-year terms. Each member may serve a maximum of two consecutive full terms. The committee membership consists of 15 lawyers and judges plus one ex officio member.