Anna Skipper Jewart

Area of Emphasis

Anna Jewart is an associate in the Public Sector and Energy and Natural Resources groups of Babst Calland. Ms. Jewart’s practice focuses primarily on municipal and land use law with a concentration in general municipal, zoning, subdivision and land development, and code enforcement.

Background

Ms. Jewart earned her B.A. in International Relations with a focus on National Security in the Middle East and Northern Africa from Boston University in 2014.  She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 2019. During law school, Ms. Jewart actively participated in the Environmental Law Society as a member and programs director, and in the Law Student Association as a class representative.  Additionally, she served as a Research Assistant for a property and environmental law faculty member and was the recipient of a 2018 Equal Justice America Fellowship.

Memberships and Affiliations

Ms. Jewart is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and before the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA) and Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) and is the secretary for the ACBA’s School and Municipal Law Section and PBA’s Municipal Law Section. Ms. Jewart serves as a volunteer attorney for the Neighborhood Legal Service’s Protection from Abuse Program. She was selected to the Pennsylvania Rising Stars list in 2024 (Thomson Reuters).

Publications/Presentations

• Co-Author, “The Devil is in the Details (and the Deemed Approval Deadlines),” The Legal Intelligencer, June 20, 2024.
• Co-Author, “Public Posting 2.0: High Court Creates Test for When Social Media Posts Are State Action,” The Legal Intelligencer, April 12, 2024.
• Presenter, “Preparation for Zoning Hearings Post Brookview Solar: How the Commonwealth Court’s Recent Decision Changed What You Need to Bring to Win,” Pennsylvania Aggregates and Concrete Association, February 8, 2024.
• Co-Author, “Public Advertising Cheat Sheet:  A Local Government Guide to Mandatory Advertising and Posting Requirements,” The Legal Intelligencer, January 9, 2024.
• Co-Author, “Divided Commonwealth Court Holds Local Agencies are Prohibited from Adding Non-Emergency and Non-De Minimis Agenda Items to the Posted Agenda,” Babst Calland Public Sector Alert, November 9, 2023.
• Co-Author, “Public-Posting:  Penncrest, Boyer, and the Release of Social-Media Under the RTKL,” The Legal Intelligencer, August 17, 2023.
• Co-Author, “Pennsylvania Criminal History Record Information Act – Amendments Effective Today,” Babst Calland Public Sector Alert, May 2, 2023.
• Co-Author, “Questions Abound Following Right-to-Know Law Decision Involving Student Records,” The Legal Intelligencer, April 20, 2023.
• Co-Author, “Court:  Pending Ordinance Doctrine Does Not Apply to Land Development Applications,” The Legal Intelligencer, December 22, 2022.
• Co-Author, “Commonwealth Court Finds Proposed Sale of Unused Park Land Violates the DDPA,” The Legal Intelligencer, October 20, 2022.
• Co-Author, “Who Knows? Timeliness of Objector Appeals of Zoning Permit Approvals,” The Legal Intelligencer, August 25, 2022.
• Co-Author, “Commonwealth Court Continues to Reject Validity Challenges to Zoning Ordinances Authorizing Oil and Gas Development,” The PIOGA Press, May 2022. 
• Co-Author, “Court Continues to Reject Validity Challenges to Oil and Gas Development,” The Legal Intelligencer, April 21, 2022.
• Co-Author, “Court:  Findings of Fact Failed in Expert’s Battle Over Wind Turbine Noise,” The Legal Intelligencer, February 10, 2022.
• Co-Author, “Court: No Property-Specific Eminent Domain Power is Necessary to Implicate Inverse Condemnation,” The Legal Intelligencer, December 23, 2021.
• Author, “Court Addresses Limitations on Approval of Planned Residential Developments,” The Legal Intelligencer, October 21, 2021.
• Co-Author, “New Legislation Providing for Deployment of Small Cell Wireless Facilities Effective Aug. 29th,” The Legal Intelligencer, August 19, 2021.
• Co-Author, “Commonwealth Court Considers Municipal Boundary Disputes,” The Legal Intelligencer, June 17, 2021.
• Co-Author, “Commonwealth Court Holds Township Need Not Vacate the Road Less Traveled,” The Legal Intelligencer, April 22, 2021.
• Co-Author, “Court: Township Has No Standing to Enforce Neighbor’s Conservation Easement,” The Legal Intelligencer, February 11, 2021.
• Co-Author, “RLUIPA’s Land Use Provisions Remain Essential Against Religious Discrimination,” The Legal Intelligencer, December 17, 2020.
• Co-Author, “Pa. Amends Minimum Wage Act OT Requirements to Exceed Federal Salary Threshold,” The Legal Intelligencer, November 5, 2020.
• Co-Author, “Court Reinforces High Standard for Both Use and Dimensional Variance Applications,” The Legal Intelligencery, October 15, 2020.
• Co-Author, “Court Enforces Settlement Agreement Despite Sunshine Act Violation,” The Legal Intelligencer, September 4, 2020.
• Co-Author, “Commonwealth Court Sees Spot Zoning, Overturns Industrial Rezoning,” The Legal Intelligencer, June 17, 2020.
• Co-Author, “Potential Changes to Title VII Protections Against Discrimination ‘Because of … Sex’,” The Legal Intelligencer, November 7, 2019.