IN RE AMENDMENT OF SECTION 5, 515 (Pa. 2-4-2011)

IN RE: AMENDMENT OF SECTION 5 OF THE INTERNAL OPERATING PROCEDURES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

No. 515.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
February 4, 2011.

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Supreme Court Rules Docket.

ORDER
PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 4th day of February, 2011, IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Article V, Section 10 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania that Section 5 of the Internal Operating Procedures of the Supreme Court is amended in the attached form.

This ORDER shall be processed in accordance with Pa.R.J.A. No. 103(b), shall be effective in 30 days, and shall be applicable to petitions filed thereafter.

Additions are shown in bold and are underlined.

Deletions are shown in bold and brackets.

§ 5. Allocaturs
A. Standards. Petitions for allowance of appeal (“allocaturs”) may be granted for any of the following reasons:

1. that the holding of the intermediate appellate court conflicts with another intermediate appellate court opinion;
2. that the holding of the intermediate appellate court conflicts with a holding of this Court or the United States Supreme Court on the same legal question;
3. that the question presented is one of first impression[, and ];
4. that the question presented is one of such substantial public importance as to require prompt and definitive resolution by this Court;
[4]5. that the issue involves the constitutionality of a statute of this Commonwealth;
[5]6. that the intermediate appellate court has so far departed from accepted judicial practices or so abused its discretion as to call for the exercise of this Court’s supervisory authority[.]; or
7. that the intermediate appellate court has erroneously entered an order quashing or dismissing an appeal.

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