On August 4, Ralph Nader asked the Commonwealth Court to reconsider its order from 2006, that says he owes $81,000 to the people who challenged his 2004 petition. The request was made, based on the revelations of July 10, 2008, that the people who challenged his petition were illegally receiving state government resources.
Carl Romanelli, who was the 2006 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, had made a similar request for rehearing on July 15, 2008, with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
I hope it is dropped. It is difficult enough to get ballot access to begin with, but this law is really absurd. I figure if you want to challenge a petition drive, YOU get to pay for it. Period.