A Pennsylvania Suspension

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has placed a Montoursville attorney on temporary suspension

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 15th day of January, 2025, having received no response to a Recommendation of the Disciplinary Board, Malcolm S. Mussina is placed on temporary suspension until further action by this Court. See Pa.R.D.E. 208(f) (5). He shall comply with the provisions of Pa.R.D.E. 217.

Respondent’s rights to petition for dissolution or amendment of this Order and to request accelerated disposition of charges underlying this order are specifically preserved. See Pa.R.D.E. 208(f)(4) and (f)(8).

This Order constitutes an imposition of public discipline. See Pa.R.D.E. 402(c)(3) (providing an exception to the confidentiality requirement of Rule 402 when “an order of temporary suspension from the practice of law is entered by the Court pursuant to Enforcement Rule 208(f)”).

It appears that there is a baseball connection (per the Society for American Baseball Research)

Michael Cole Mussina was born on December 8, 1968, in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, a town of under 6,000 in Lycoming County, in the north central part of the state. Regarding his hometown in 1996, Mussina noted, “Until about five years ago, we had four street lights. It’s not large by any means. You can get from one side of town to the other in about five minutes by car — maybe three minutes if you don’t hit any lights.”

The oldest child of parents Malcolm Mussina, a lawyer, and Eleanor (Ellie) Mussina, a nurse, Mike had one sibling, Mark, who was born in 1972. Mark also achieved a degree of athletic success as a three-sport standout at Montoursville High School, being named first team all-conference in football, basketball, and baseball as a senior. He went on to play football and baseball at Susquehanna University and earned a degree in mathematics. Professionally he has worked in real estate, but is primarily known as a sports radio host. As of 2016, the entire family still lived in Montoursville.

Mike Mussina showed athletic prowess from an early age, with snapshot evidence of him throwing perfect football spirals at age 3. Father Malcolm noted, “How does that happen? Nobody could have taught him that. It was just perfect.” Unusually gifted and driven, Mussina spent hours upon hours as a youth honing his athletic skills on nearby fields and in the family basement, where he used strips of tape to make a strike zone on the wall, occasionally waking the family on weekends when an errant throw would miss the box and strike a radiator.

(Mike Frisch)