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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Monday that sought to ban the tactics the Legislature used to give itself a pay raise in the middle of the night last summer.
The lawsuit alleged that legislators violated the Constitution last year when they passed a bill in the early morning hours, just before recessing for the summer. They voted to raise lawmakers' salaries along with the pay of judges, the governor and some other executive-branch officials.
The pay raise was repealed in November, shortly after voters rejected a sitting Supreme Court justice for the first time in state history.
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