Case Name: In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore "Sam" J. VALENTY for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell. In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore "Sam" J. Valenty for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2012-03-02
Citations: 43 A.3d 464
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore “Sam” J. VALENTY for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell. In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore “Sam” J. Valenty for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell.
Judges: BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., and SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, MCCAFFERY, and ORIE MELVIN, JJ.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 43
Pages: 464–469

Head Matter:
In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore “Sam” J. VALENTY for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell. In re Nomination Petition of Salvatore “Sam” J. Valenty for the Republican Nomination for County Commissioner in the Primary of May 17, 2011. Appeal of Patricia J. Kiniry and Steven R. Mitchell.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Submitted on Briefs July 12, 2011.
Decided March 2, 2012.
Jesse David Daniel, the Serene Law Firm, Indiana, for Steven R. Mitchell, Appellant.
Katherine Elizabeth Missimer, Lawrence J. Tabas, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Patricia J. Kiniry, Appellant.
Gerald P. Neugebauer Jr., Neugebauer, Swope & Swope, P.C., J. Dennis Previte, Ebensburg, for Salvatore “Sam” J. Valenty, Appellee.
BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., and SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, MCCAFFERY, and ORIE MELVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
The appeal from the order of the Commonwealth Court is hereby DISMISSED as moot.
Chief Justice CASTILLE files a dissenting statement joined by Justices BAER and McCAFFERY.