Aaron D. Martin of the law firm Mette, Evans & Woodside as Counsel for the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors filed an Amicus Curiae brief in with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday; in favor of the Petitioners.
The “Summary of the Argument” is provided below:
“The membership of the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® offers vital, life-sustaining services to millions of Pennsylvanians. Governor Tom Wolf’s administration has improperly prohibited the offering of life-sustaining real estate and related services by PAR’s membership. Such denial, while ostensibly made in conjunction with the guidance from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, is in fact in contradiction of such guidance. This arbitrarily denies to millions of Pennsylvanians life-sustaining services that must be maintained even in time of public health crisis. The Wolf administration’s undue delay in processing requests for waiver from its orders shutting down all businesses except those arbitrarily designated “life sustaining” has rendered the present administrative process utterly ineffective. Further, the administration’s position that it has the authority to create and destroy such administrative review process at any moment and at will, thereafter leaving tens of thousands of PAR members without any avenue of administrative or even judicial relief from the shutdown of their businesses, is contrary to the Pennsylvania Constitution and risks opening the floodgates to litigation in the Unified Judicial System.”
The entire Amicus Curiae brief filed by the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors is provided PAR Application for Leave to File Amicus Brief.pdf (1).
Earlier on Friday, the City of Philadelphia filed a Amicus Curiae brief in support of the Order issued by Governor Wolf Application for Leave to File Amicus Brief.
Governor Wolf was given until 2 p.m. today to file a brief in response to additional filings brought by Scaringi Law yesterday in the case.
