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Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille is scheduled to appear at 7 p.m. Monday on PCN-TV to discuss his goals for 2014...

December 17

Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey A. Manning will serve a five-year term as president judge of the Common Pleas Court of the Fifth...

December 12

Pay court-ordered fines, fees, costs or restitution from the comfort of your own home or office. The state court system offers...

December 03

Follow @PACourts on Twitter for news about the Pennsylvania state court system, court opinions and other information. The stat...

December 03

A veteran Luzerne County attorney has been named chief legal counsel for the AOPC’s Legal Department, Court Administrator...

November 20

Gov. Thomas Corbett has nominated Delaware County Judge Patricia Jenkins to a vacancy on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. J...

November 20

Supreme Court Justice Debra Todd presented Allegheny County Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski with a certificate of accreditation for the...

November 11

Want to help former servicemen and servicewomen who come into contact with the criminal justice system? Pennsylvania’s j...

November 07

Pennsylvania voters have chosen to retain four appellate court jurists. Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille and J...

November 05

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille announced that 47 claimants who were allegedly bilked by a Wilkes-Barre attorne...

October 30

Two Supreme Court justices seeking retention will appear this week on special editions of the Pennsylvania Cable Network’s...

October 28

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille joined other top court leaders from neighboring Maryland and West Virginia to b...

October 21

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille has issued a statement refuting claims in a new book that the Supreme Court of...

October 09

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has announced the appointment of Superior Court Judge Jack A. Panella to the Court of Judicial...

September 23

Representatives from Singapore’s Office of Public Guardian traveled halfway around the world to learn more about practices...

September 17

Commonwealth Court President Judge Dan Pellegrini has granted the state Department of Health’s petition seeking to compel...

September 12

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session on Sept. 13 in Reading, where a three-judge panel is schedule...

September 09

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille said today that rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 2012 are...

September 06

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has decided to move three cases previously set for a special session at Dallas High School in Lu...

August 29

Pennsylvania Supreme Court courtrooms in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Harrisburg are featured in a new book about state courthou...

August 22

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has elected Judge John T. Bender as president of the 15-member intermediate appellate court. P...

August 13

A Common Pleas Court judge narrowly escaped the deadly bomb blasts at this year’s Boston Marathon. Read his first-person...

August 13

An increasing number of courts are implementing rules to control the use of new media like Facebook and Twitter in the courtroom...

August 08

The number of abused and neglected children placed in foster care or temporary living arrangements throughout Pennsylvania conti...

August 07

Zygmont Pines, court administrator of Pennsylvania, has been named president of the Conference of State Court Administrators and...

August 02

Former Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens became the newest member of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Tuesday...

July 31

Visitors to the Unified Judicial System website consistently are viewing the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s opinions and...

July 30

Ever wonder where the money from a traffic ticket goes? A summary of fees and costs associated with moving traffic viola

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July 17

The Pennsylvania Judiciary is launching a new system across the Commonwealth to track problem-solving court case results that ar

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July 17

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania today is continuing its consideration of a challenge to Pennsylvania’s voter/photo

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July 15

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed C. Robert Keenan III, Esq., to the Board of Law Examiners. Keenan, of Alleghen

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July 11

Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens will fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following his confirmation by the Pe...

July 01

The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously recommended that the full Senate consider the nomination of Superi...

June 27

State legislation signed by Gov. Tom Corbett earlier this week transferred the authority of the Philadelphia Traffic Court to th...

June 21

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille today issued the following statement on Governor Tom Corbett’s signing of...

June 19

Gov. Thomas Corbett has appointed Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens to the vacancy on the Supreme Court of Penn...

June 14

More than $100 million in traffic fines and other court-ordered fines, costs and restitution has been collected over the last tw

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June 10

A special program and reception were held on June 5 in Pittsburgh, as Duquesne University School of Law and the Pennsylvania Int...

June 05

Audio clips of the chief justice are available on the UJS website The latest available medical malpractice case information re...

June 04

@PACourts has reached a Twitter milestone of 2,000 followers. Our followers get the latest information about the state courts...

June 03

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has adopted new rules that will, for the first time, require uniform policies, procedures and

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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

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May 13

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will hold a “mega seminar” for the Pennsylvania State Police and local police dep

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May 06

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...

April 18

During this 50th anniversary year of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision establishing the right to counsel for the indige...

April 11

Joseph Evers, a 40-year veteran of the Philadelphia court system, has been named interim court administrator of Pennsylvania's...

April 10

NOTE: Audio actualities from Chief Justice Castille are available Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille today prese...

April 08

A substantial overhaul of the current Orphans’ Court Procedural Rules, which have remained relatively intact for nearly fo

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April 03

Superior Court President Judge Correale F. Stevens will chair a three-judge argument court panel on campus at the University of...

March 26

In a letter to Gov. Tom Corbett, Justice Joan Orie Melvin today resigned her seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, effective M

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March 25

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille was today’s featured speaker at the Pennsylvania Press Club where he talk...

March 25

The Pennsylvania Superior Court will hold a special session in the Beaver County Courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2 an...

March 22

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today announced the appointment of Tracey McCants Lewis, Esq., to the Pennsylva...

March 22

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has appointed Stephanie S. Libhart as executive director of the IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers Trust...

March 13

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed Allegheny County Judge Kim Berkeley Clark to the Juvenile Court Procedural Rules

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March 07

Hundreds of aspiring lawyers took the February 2013 Pennsylvania Bar Exam. Prospective attorneys took the exam over a two-day

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March 05

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has reappointed Superior Court Judge Anne E. Lazarus to the Judicial Conduct Board. Judge La

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March 04

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has begun issuing orders that reshape magisterial district court boundaries statewide to adapt...

February 26

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session of its argument court in Lipkin Theatre of Northampton Community...

February 19

Magisterial district and Common Pleas criminal courts throughout Pennsylvania collected and disbursed to the state, counties, mu...

February 18

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today announced the appointment of Simquita R. Bridges, Esq., to the Criminal Procedural Rules

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February 18

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed Anthony Charles Aliano, Esq., to the Continuing Legal Education Board. Aliano,...

February 10

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today unveiled an interactive website feature that, for the first time, will give the public a...

February 09

Philadelphia attorney Philip Yoon will become Superior Court Chief Staff Attorney on March 25, President Judge Correale F. Stevens

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February 05

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has accredited Lackawanna County’s adult drug court. The designation is part of an effort...

February 04

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today indefinitely suspended three judges who presided over Philadelphia Traffic Court cases,...

January 31

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin issued the following statement today in light of federal...

January 30

The website (www.pacourts.us) now contains expenditure and compensation information. In addition, electronic docket sheets for mor

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January 24

Military veterans facing incarceration for minor criminal charges would have the option of supervised treatment under a pilot pr...

January 24