The Dragonetti Act unconstitutionally encroaches on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s exclusive ability to regulate the practice of law, an attorney seeking to overturn the 36-year-old law allowing lawyers to be sued for filing frivolous lawsuits argued before the justices Tuesday.
Attorney Paul C. Troy of Kane, Pugh, Knoell, Troy & Kramer contended that, although the practice of suing an attorney for malicious use of civil process existed in common law for decades before the Dragonetti Act, the General Assembly violated the constitution provision granting the high court the exclusive ability to regulate attorney conduct when it enacted the law in 1980.
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