The first suit will challenge the new legislation amending Act 23 that permits the payment of taxes or the waiver of those taxes by a municipality on behalf of a project user. This challenge will be based upon the constitutionality of these amendments.

The City of Lancaster passed an ordinance which permits the City to pay the taxes on the Convention Center hotel in the event it is determined to be subject to local real estate taxes. The constitutional challenge to the new law will be based on its violation of the Uniformity Clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution which requires uniform treatment of similarly-situated citizens.

The second action is an appeal to the Commonwealth Court's decision denying her challenge of the Convention Center hotel bond guarantees by the City of Lancaster to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Ms. Koppenhaver stated that she has directed her counsel to prepare the appeal.

Koppenhaver is founder and owner of Mulberry Art Studios in the City of Lancaster and owns properties in the City. She says, "I want this case to go before the Supreme Court so it can fully consider that in my challenge before the Department of Community and Economic Development my counsel was not permitted to engage in any discovery, we were denied a hearing on the merits and the ruling was based only on the submissions of the City which I was not allowed to rebut."