As the Barnes Case Turns UPDATED

In the continuing legal soap opera, this just in from Friends of the Barnes, one of the litigants petitioning the Montgomery County Orphans’ Court to stop the Barnes Foundation’s move to Philadelphia:
The Preliminary Objection [filed by the Barnes Foundation’s lawyers] attempts to shift the focus from the substantive issues raised in its petitions filed by the Friends of the Barnes and Montgomery County, to whether the petitioners should be permitted to raise any issues at all [i.e., their legal “standing”]. The document refers to the petitioners’ claims as “scurrilous” and asks Judge Stanley Ott to make the petitioners pay for its legal costs.
UPDATE—Carolyn Carluccio, Montgomery County’s attorney in the Barnes case, has sent me this update on today’s court action:
We all met this morning in Courtroom 10 of Orphan’s Court. A briefing schedule was set-up for the Foundation to prepare and submit their briefs within 30 days and then Mr. [Mark] Schwartz [attorney for Friends of the Barnes] and I will have 30 days from that date to respond.