Along The Legal Front Of The Orie-Zappala War: The Curious Case Of The Seal That Doesn't Bark

The stakes and participants of the Orie-Zappala War create intense pressures, sufficient to warp customary processes and decisions in many circumstances, such as this one. Good luck to the Post-Gazette (and any other civic-minded publishers) in attempting to (1) persuade Pennsylvania's courts to restore normalcy to the litigation front and (2) drafting a series of those tricky 'this is the way it usually happens, but this is the way it is occurring in this case' stories in the meantime.