The City Council in Pennsylvania's capital of Harrisburg sued the state yesterday to halt work by a receiver overseeing the city's fiscal recovery plan, Reuters reported yesterday. The federal lawsuit challenges the state's takeover of Harrisburg, claiming that state lawmakers' approval in October of a receiver was unconstitutional. "Neither the governor nor the Republican-controlled legislature have the right to impose their will on the city of Harrisburg just because they disagree with the position of the democratically elected City Council," City Council President Wanda Williams said. Paul Rossi, an attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the City Council, said that the legislature gave Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett (R) unfettered powers to decide whether to put Harrisburg into receivership, which the council alleges violated due process under the U.S. Constitution. The council asked in the suit for an injunction that could stop the work of state-appointed receiver, retired U.S. Air Force Major General William Lynch.
