A divided Commonwealth Court dismissed as moot an operator’s challenge to Environmental Hearing Board conditions because the unconventional gas-well permits expired during the appeal.
The Commonwealth Court held that the high bidder at a disapproved upset tax sale lacked a legally enforceable interest supporting intervention and could not appeal orders entered before he became a party.
The Commonwealth Court held that a premature civil appeal ripened when judgment was entered, but the homeowners waived all merits issues by filing post-trial motions after Rule 227.1’s deadline.
The Commonwealth Court held that emailed administrative appeals were timely filed because DHS regulations allow receipt “in another manner” beyond postal delivery.
In a published opinion, the Commonwealth Court reversed dismissal of UC appeals where incarceration prevented timely receipt of agency determinations.
The Commonwealth Court held that a trial court’s termination of a dormant license appeal was void because the docket contained no Rule 230.2 notice of intent to terminate, and ordered a prompt merits decision.
The Commonwealth Court held that the Parole Board timely conducted a revocation hearing after a federal prisoner returned to Pennsylvania custody and had no duty to seek an earlier interstate transfer.
In a published opinion, the Commonwealth Court held that a Home Depot employee who refused a transfer she regarded as beneath her did not prove necessitous and compelling cause to quit.
In a published opinion, the Commonwealth Court affirmed denial of unemployment benefits and held that issues not raised in the claimant’s appeal from the referee were waived.
The Commonwealth Court held that an order striking a consent order and reopening a property-assessment case is not final or immediately appealable.
Court issues a substantive appellate ruling IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA Academy House Condominium : Association, : Appellant : : No. 250 C.D. 2025 v. : : Submitted: June 16, 2026 Brian S.
The Commonwealth Court affirmed the quashing of a land use appeal challenging a Fayette County wind power facility development plan, holding that the MPC’s 30-day appeal period ran from the date of the written approval decision — not from the objector’s internet discovery that construction had begun — and that the due process exception to the time limit must be affirmatively pleaded in the appeal.
The Commonwealth Court affirmed denial of workers’ compensation benefits to a pro se claimant, holding that substantial evidence supported the WCJ’s credibility determinations and that rejecting a claimant’s medical evidence is not capricious disregard — and rejecting the employer’s motion to quash under the post-2014 version of Pa.R.A.P. 1513.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed the dismissal of a Right-to-Know Law appeal from an OAG denial, holding that the Office of Open Records has no jurisdiction over such appeals because Section 503(d)(1) of the RTKL expressly requires the Attorney General to designate its own appeals officer, a jurisdictional carve-out analogous to the one applicable to judicial agencies.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed the denial of a license suspension appeal, holding that Court Administration’s ten-year failure to schedule a hearing — despite repeated court orders to do so — constituted an extraordinary government-caused delay that violated the licensee’s due process rights under the Middaugh framework and mandated dismissal of the suspension.