Background
IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA All Star Auto Sales & Service LLC, : Petitioner : : v. : No. 991 C.D. 2024 : Submitted: October 7, 2025 Department of Transportation, : Respondent : BEFORE: HONORABLE RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER, President Judge HONORABLE STACY WALLACE, Judge HONORABLE MARY HANNAH LEAVITT, Senior Judge OPINION NOT REPORTED MEMORANDUM OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE COHN JUBELIRER FILED: July 22, 2026 All Star Auto Sales & Services LLC (All Star) petitions for review of the Order of the Executive Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation (Department), exited July 2, 2024. In the Order, the Executive Deputy Secretary affirmed an order of a Hearing Officer of the Department dismissing All Star’s appeal from the Department’s termination of its Enhanced Vehicle Safety Inspection Station Agreement (Agreement) with All Star. All Star argues the Department and the Hearing Officer violated All Star’s due process rights because the Department did not conduct a hearing before terminating the Agreement and the Hearing Officer did not conduct an evidentiary hearing on All Star’s appeal of the termination. After careful review, the Court affirms the Order because All Star received adequate due process under the unique circumstances of this case.
BACKGROUND All Star is a vehicle inspection station. On July 13, 2022, the Department issued an Order of Immediate Suspension of Official Inspection Station, suspending All Star’s Certificate of Appointment as an Official Safety Inspection Station (Certificate of Inspection) pursuant to Section 4724 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 4724, for missing or broken required tools or equipment. The Department subsequently issued an Order of Suspension of Official Inspection Station (Suspension Order) on July 27, 2022, suspending All Star’s Certificate of Inspection for an aggregate of 28 months, effective July 13, 2022: Pursuant to [Section 175.51(a) of Title 67 of the Pennsylvania Code,] 67 Pa. Code § 175.51 (a), your Certificate of [Inspection] will be suspended for one (1) year for fraudulent record keeping, including the lesser offenses of improper record keeping and careless record keeping, one (1) year for faulty inspection of equipment or parts, four (4) months for improperly assigning certificate of inspection, and a warning for required tools or equipment missing or broken. The above violation(s) relate(s) to conduct that occurred on July 13, 2022 . . . .
The Court’s Holding
For the foregoing reasons, the Court affirms the Order of the Executive Deputy Secretary. __________________________________________ RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER, President Judge 15 IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA All Star Auto Sales & Service LLC, : Petitioner : : v. : No. 991 C.D. 2024 : Department of Transportation, : Respondent : ORDER NOW, July 22, 2026, the Order of the Executive Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, exited July 2, 2024, is AFFIRMED. __________________________________________ RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER, President Judge
The decision applies Pennsylvania law to the issues preserved in this appeal and explains the governing standard in the court’s own terms. The disposition controls the parties’ next steps and supplies guidance for litigants confronting the same procedural or substantive question.
Key Takeaways
- For the foregoing reasons, the Court affirms the Order of the Executive Deputy Secretary. __________________________________________ RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER, President Judge 15 IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA All Star Auto Sales & Service LLC, : Petitioner : : v. : No. 991 C.D. 2024 : Department of Transportation, : Respondent : ORDER NOW, July 22, 2026, the Order of the Executive Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, exited July 2, 2024, is AFFIRMED. __________________________________________ RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER, President Judge
- On July 13, 2022, the Department issued an Order of Immediate Suspension of Official Inspection Station, suspending All Star’s Certificate of Appointment as an Official Safety Inspection Station (Certificate of Inspection) pursuant to Section 4724 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 4724, for missing or broken required tools or equipment.
- The Department subsequently issued an Order of Suspension of Official Inspection Station (Suspension Order) on July 27, 2022, suspending All Star’s Certificate of Inspection for an aggregate of 28 months, effective July 13, 2022: Pursuant to [Section 175.51(a) of Title 67 of the Pennsylvania Code,] 67 Pa.
Why It Matters
Commonwealth Court upholds PennDOT’s termination of an inspection-station agreement Pennsylvania practitioners should read the ruling with particular attention to the court’s treatment of preservation, the applicable standard, and the remedy. Those points will shape how comparable claims are framed in trial courts and reviewed on appeal.