House Democrats File Brief In Impact Fee Suit

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  Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
  
  Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
  
  Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

The House Democratic Caucus has filed an Amici Curiae —  that’s “friends of the court” for everyone who didn’t take freshman Latin — brief in the lawsuit a handful of townships have filed against Pennsylvania’s new Act 13.
The brief mirrors the lawsuit’s argument: that the legislation’s restriction on local zoning and regulation of drilling is unconstitutional.
Commonwealth Court has issued an injunction delaying those restrictions from going into effect, though the judge did write a footnote stating he was “not con­vinced that peti­tion­ers’ like­li­hood of suc­cess on the mer­its is high.”
Read the House Dems’ brief below:

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