In his usual combative prose, Arthur Wolk lambasted the Lower Merion School District and their large and well compensated legal team (Wolk has consistently maintained that his now three-year-old legal struggle against LMSD is a pro bono undertaking). Yesterday (April 8), he  responded to the District’s petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that seeks to overturn last month’s ruling by the Commonwealth Court, which affirmed a 2016 ruling by Judge Joseph Smyth of the  Court of Common Pleas (Montgomery County).

In that ruling Smyth used the word legerdemain (a term that was echoed by the Commonwealth Court  in their ruling) to described what he considered to be the District’s  illegal practice of budgeting in excess of what was needed, and building surplus upon surplus with those excesses. Wolk claims the surplus is now approaching $100 million.