Supreme Court of the United States, 1907

The Supreme Court affirmed the decree consolidating the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny under Pennsylvania's Act of February 7, 1906, over the objections of Allegheny citizens, voters, property owners and taxpayers.

The Court dismissed the writ of error because the asserted errors concerned state law and did not establish an infringement of federal constitutional rights. It held that the Fourteenth Amendment does not convert state-law questions about contempt proceedings, the pendency of litigation, or changes in state law into…