IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

RYAN COVERT, DARLENE J. COVERT,

AND ERIK HULICK,

Petitioners

v.

2021 PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATIVE

REAPPORTIONMENT COMMISSION,

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: No. 4 WM 2022

Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022

KERRY BENNINGHOFF, INDIVIDUALLY,

AND AS MAJORITY LEADER OF THE

PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES,

Petitioner

v.

2021 LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT

COMMISSION,

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: No. 11 MM 2022

Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022

LISA M. BOSCOLA, SENATOR 18TH

DISTRICT,

Petitioner

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Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022ERIC ROE,

Petitioner

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: No. 16 MM 2022

Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022

RON Y. DONAGI, PHILIP T. GRESSMAN,

PAMELA GORKIN , DAVID P. MARSH,

JAMES L. ROSENBERGER, EUGENE

BOMAN, GARY GORDON, LIZ MCMAHON,

TIMOTHY FEEMAN, AND GARTH ISAAK,

Petitioners

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COMMISSION,

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Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022

GABRIEL INGRAM, RUTH MOTON, MARK

KIRCHGASSER AND SUSAN POWELL,

Petitioners

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COMMISSION,

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Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022TODD ELLIOTT KOGER,

Petitioner

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Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022

JACKIE HUTZ,

Petitioner

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REAPPORTIONMENT COMMISSION,

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Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022

EDWARD J. KRESS,

Petitioner

v.

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COMMISSION OF THE COMMONWEALTH

OF PENNSYLV A NIA,

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Appeal from the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Plan dated February 4, 2022O RDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 16th day of March , 2022

, upon consideration of the above

captioned legislative reapportionment appeals filed pursuant to P A

. C ONST

. art. II, § 17(d)

(indicating that “[a]ny aggrieved person may file an appeal from the final plan [of the 2021

Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission] directly to the Supreme Court”)

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this Court find s that the Final Reapportionment Plan of the Pennsylvania Legislative

Reapportionment Comm ission filed on February 4, 2022, is in compliance with the

mandates of the Pennsylvania Constitution and the Un ited States Constitution and is not

contrary to law, and , therefore, shall have the force of law. See P A

. C ONST . art. II, § 17(d)

& (e) (specifying that “[i]f the appellant establishes that the final plan is contrary to law,

the Supreme Court shall issue an order remanding the plan to the commission” and that

“ [ w ] hen the Supreme Court has finally decid ed an appeal...the reapportionment plan shall

have the force of law...”). Further, i t is hereby ordered that said Plan shall be used in all

forthcoming elections to the General Assembly until the next constitutionally

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reapportionment shall be approve d.

All outstanding motions filed in the above

- captioned matters are hereby

DISMISSED

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This Court’s February 23, 2022 O rder, at Judicial Administration Docket No. 569,

which temporarily suspended the General Primary Election calendar relative to elections

for seats in the General Assembly

, is VACATED. Our adjustment to that calendar is

resolved by separate order at that docket number and entered today.

Jurisdiction relinquished.