CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, BOROUGH OF WEST CHESTER, BOROUGH OF NARBERTH, and LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP v. THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA and THE PENNSYLVANIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Philadelphia and three other Pennsylvania municipalities have filed suit against the state of Pennsylvania challenging a state-wide law preempting any local government ban on the use of single-use plastics, such as plastic bags.

[To accompany State Case Law Update "Cities Challenge Pennsylvania State Law Preempting Plastic Bag Bans" from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 75.]