Mandating that Pennsylvania's judges retire in the year they turn 70 cannot be upheld even under the lowest standard of constitutional review, a group of judicial plaintiffs argued in court papers.
The filing in federal court is the first to be made since the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected similar lawsuits challenging the state constitutional provision mandating that state-court judges retire in the year in which they turn 70.
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