COM. v. NEIMAN

No. 74 MAP 2011

84 A.3d 603 (2013)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. James Howard NEIMAN, Jr., Appellant The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 16, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Bryant Engle , Shaffer & Engle Law Offices, Millersburg, for Appellant.

Douglas Joseph Taglieri , Karen Byrnes-Noon , James Patrick Goodman , Schuylkill County District Attorney's Office, Pottsville, for Appellee.

Thomas Walter Dymek , Jonathan F. Bloom , Karl Stewart Myers , Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor.

CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, ORIE MELVIN, JJ.


OPINION

Justice TODD.

In this appeal, we consider whether Act 152 of 2004 ("Act 152"),1 which makes various amendments to the Judicial Code,2 violates the "single subject" rule of Article III, Section 3 of the Pennsylvania Constitution,3 and, if so, whether the portions of Act 152 amending Pennsylvania's "Megan's Law" may be severed from the other provisions of...

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