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- Title: Richard B. Klein v. Commonwealth Pennsylvania
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 03, 1989
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
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Although it arises from complex legislation and protracted litigation, the principal issue raised in this appeal is really quite simple: may the legislature compensate judges of the same class/level of court (in this case, at the Common Pleas bench) who perform the same functions and duties at different rates of compensation based solely on the dates on which they began their respective terms of office. We hold that such different rates of compensation for judges creates unequal, arbitrary and unreasonable classifications of judges within the same class/level which violate the equal protection provisions of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and are in conflict with the constitutional mandate to have a unified judicial system in this Commonwealth.