Like the private citizens before them, elected officials in Harrisburg lack standing to sue the state over Governor Tom Corbett’s amendment to Pennsylvania’s Financially Distressed Municipalities Act, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania has ruled.
Because the officials five members of Harrisburg’s politically divided City Council, the city controller and the city’s treasurer filed the suit without being expressly sanctioned to represent the city, they can’t make claims on the city’s behalf, Jones said.
