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Bar Association Won't Rate Traffic Court Judges

By Amaris Elliott-Engel Contact All Articles 

The Legal Intelligencer

February 6, 2013

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While municipal government watchdog group Committee of Seventy suggested that the Philadelphia Bar Association "take responsibility for interviewing and rating all 2013 Traffic Court candidates" in the wake of nine judges being charged with crimes related to alleged ticket-fixing, the association's chancellor said the professional group does not have the jurisdiction to rate Traffic Court judges because they are not required to be lawyers.

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