IN RE NOMINATION OF DEYOUNG, 586 Pa. 511 (2006)

895 A.2d 546

In re Nomination Petition of Marie DEYOUNG as a Democrat for State Representative in the General Assembly for the 163rd Legislative District, Appeal of Harry M. Riley, IV.

J-96-2006.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Submitted April 17, 2006.
Decided: April 25, 2006.

Appeal No. 55 MAP 2006 from the Order entered in the Commonwealth Court on April 7, 2006, M. Hannah Leavitt, J.

Michael Lawrence Maddren, Esq., Media, for Harry M. Riley, IV.

Bruce H. Bikin, Esq., Philadelphia, for Marie E. DeYoung.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, and BALDWIN, JJ.

ORDER
PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 25th day of April, 2006, we REVERSE the Order of the Commonwealth Court and REMAND to the Commonwealth Court for a decision on the merits on Appellee Harry M. Riley’s Petition to Set Aside Nomination Petition.

Page 512

Said decision to be rendered within seven (7) days of the date of this Order. A qualified private party has a right to object to a Statement of Financial Interests attached to a Nomination Petition, therefore Appellee has standing to object in this matter. Cf. In re Nomination Petition Bryant, 578 Pa. 421, 852
A.2d 1193 (2004); In re Petition of Cioppa, 533 Pa. 564, 626
A.2d 146 (1993). Opinion to follow. Jurisdiction relinquished.