Court Opinion

ID: 9879358
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-27 18:09:44.31344+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:38:47.180711
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE MUNDY, concurring I join the Majority in full. I write separately to note that this issue arises from our Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Neiman, 624 Pa. 53, 84 A.3d 603 (2013). Therein, we held that Act 152 of 2004 was unconstitutional under the Single Subject Clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution, and its various subparts were not severa-ble. Neiman, 84 A.3d at 613, 615-16. The Superior Court’s opinion in Neiman concluded that Act 152 violated the Single Subject Clause but reached the opposite conclusion as to severance. Commonwealth v. Neiman, 5 A.3d 353, 358-60 (Pa. Super. 2010) (en banc), rev’d, 624 Pa. 53, 84 A.3d 603 (2013). As a judge on the Superior Court, I joined that opinion in full, and continue to believe that this Court’s opinion in Neiman was incorrectly decided on the question of severance. Nevertheless, accepting Neiman’s severance analysis as binding, I agree with the Majority that the Superior Court’s judgment in this case cannot stand. With these observations, I join the opinion of the Court.