
Magisterial District Courts
Magisterial District Courts are the first level of court in the Pennsylvania legal system. Magisterial District Judges—or MDJs, as they are called—preside over traffic ticket cases, landlord tenant evictions, civil cases below $12,000 in value, summary trials for minor criminal citations, as well as preliminary arraignments and preliminary hearings (the first steps in most misdemeanor or felony criminal prosecutions).
- Berks County Magisterial District Courts
- Carbon County Magisterial District Courts
- Lancaster County Magisterial District Courts
- Lebanon County Magisterial District Courts
- Montour County Magisterial District Courts
- Northampton County Magisterial District Courts
- Northumberland County Magisterial District Courts
- Schuylkill County Magisterial District Courts
- Snyder County Magisterial District Courts
- Union County Magisterial District Courts