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Superior Court of Pennsylvania; Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, United States except those cases which involve decisions of governmental agencies; public sector legal questions; actions to which the Commonwealth is a party other than criminal cases; or actions to which a not-for-profit, private corporation is a party, all of which are appealed instead to the Commonwealth Court.
The official reporter for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is the Pennsylvania State Reports since 1845. There are no official reporters for either the Superior Court or the Commonwealth Court, but the Pennsylvania Reporter (a Pennsylvania-specific version of the Atlantic Reporter) is an unofficial reporter.
Pennsylvania's legal system is based on common law, which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court, Superior Court, and Commonwealth Court, which are published in the Pennsylvania State Reports and the Pennsylvania Reporter. [citation needed] Municipalities may also promulgate local ordinances. In addition, there ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision Wednesday that state law provides voters whose mail ballots are rejected an opportunity to vote by provisional ballot. More than 1.1 million ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower court's ruling from almost two weeks ago that had said the two most populous counties of the battleground state will not be able to throw ...
Voters were asked to decide whether Pennsylvania Superior Court Judges Jack Panella and Victor Stabile should be retained for additional 10-year terms. The “yes” or “no” votes for each ...
Commonwealth v. Dent, 2010 PA Super 47, 992 A.2d 190 (2010), was a Pennsylvania court case wherein a Columbia County Court ruled that poker was a game of skill not luck, thus not illegal gambling per the state statutes. Later, On April 2, 2010, a Pennsylvania Superior Court overturned the ruling declaring poker to be a game of luck.
The state Supreme Court said this week that it will consider an appeal by the attorney general's office of a lower-court decision that found that what are often called skill games are based on a ...