Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The Minor Court Rules Committee is planning to recommend that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: amend Rule 214 of the Rules of Conduct, Office Standards and Civil Procedure for Magisterial District Judges to provide for notification of parents and/or guardians when a subpoena is issued to a person under the age of eighteen; Amend Rule 209 of the Rules of Conduct, Office Standards and Civil Procedure for Magisterial District Judges to specify that military personnel shall be granted continuances in civil actions under certain circumstances; and amend Rule 202 and promulgate an entirely new Rule 215 of the Rules of Conduct, Office Standards and Civil Procedure for Magisterial District Judges to permit use of advanced communication technology in civil actions.
These recommendations can be viewed at: www.aopc.org/Index/SupCtCmtes/mcrc/indexmcrc.asp. The deadline for suggestions, comments or objections to these recommendations are Saturday, May 31, 2008.
Please send suggestions, comments or objections to the address listed below: Paula Knudsen Burke, Counsel, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Minor Court Rules Committee, 5035 Ritter Road, Suite 700, Mechanicsburg, PA, 17055, fax: 717-795-2175 or e-mail to: minorcourt.rules@pacourts.us.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The Civil Procedural Rules Committee is proposing Recommendation 231 - New Rule of Civil Procedure 1036.1 governing reinstatement of a claim dismissed upon an affidavit of noninvolvement.
This recommendation can be viewed at: www.aopc.org/Index/SupCtCmtes/CivilRulesCmte/Indexcivilrules.asp. The deadline for comments to this recommendation is Friday, May 23, 2008.
All communications in reference to the proposed recommendation should be sent to: Karla M. Shultz, Esquire, Counsel, Civil Procedural Rules Committee, 5035 Ritter Road, Suite 700, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055, or e-mail to civil.rules@pacourts.us.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee
The Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee proposes to amend Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 2116. The amendments are being submitted to the bench and bar for comments and suggestions prior to their submission to the Supreme Court.
The proposed amendments can be viewed at:
www.aopc.org/Index/SupCtCmtes/AppCtRulesCmte/rec66app.pdf.
Proposed new material is underlined while deleted material is bracketed.
All communications in reference to the proposed amendment should be
sent no later than April 28, 2008, to:
Dean R. Phillips, Chief Counsel
D. Alicia Hickok, Deputy Counsel
Scot Withers, Deputy Counsel
Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee
5035 Ritter Road, Suite 700
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee
The Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee proposes to amend Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 1736. The amendments are being submitted to the bench and bar for comments and suggestions prior to their submission to the Supreme Court.
The proposed amendments can be viewed at:
www.aopc.org/Index/SupCtCmtes/AppCtRulesCmte/rec76app.pdf.
Proposed new material is underlined while deleted material is bracketed. All communications in reference to the proposed amendment should be sent no later than April 28, 2008, to:
Dean R. Phillips, Chief Counsel
D. Alicia Hickok, Deputy Counsel
Scot Withers, Deputy Counsel
Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee
5035 Ritter Road, Suite 700
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee
Recommendation 94
The Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee is planning to recommend that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania amend the Rules of Civil Procedure relating to domestic relations matters. This proposal has not been submitted for review by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
The proposed amendments can be viewed at:
www.aopc.org/Index/SupCtCmtes/domesticrelations/rec94domrel.pdf.
Notes and explanatory comments which appear with proposed amendments have been inserted by the committee for the convenience of those using the rules. Reports, notes and comments will not constitute part of the rules and will not be officially adopted or promulgated by the Supreme Court.
The committee solicits and welcomes comments and suggestions from all
interested persons prior to submission of this proposal to the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania. Please submit written comments no later than Friday, May 16, 2008
directed to:
Patricia A. Miles, Esquire
Counsel, Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee
5035 Ritter Road, Suite 700
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055
FAX (717) 795-2175
E-mail: patricia.miles@pacourts.us
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
NOW, this 26th day of February 2008, upon the recommendation of the Juvenile Court Procedural Rules Committee; the proposal having been published before adoption at 37 Pa.B. 3096 (July 7, 2007), in the Atlantic Reporter (Second Series Advance Sheets, Vol. 924, July 20, 2007), and on the Supreme Court web-page, and an Explanatory Report to be published with this ORDER: IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Article V, Section 10 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania that new Rules 630 and 632 and the amendments to Rules 150 and 613, now renumbered Rule 631, of the Rules of Juvenile Court Procedure are adopted in the attached form. This ORDER shall be processed in accordance with Pa.R.J.A. 103(b), and shall be effective April 1, 2008.
The rule changes can be viewed at: http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Supreme/out/437spct.1attach.pdf
and
http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Supreme/out/437spct.1rpt.pdf
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
NOW, this 26th day of February, 2008, upon the recommendation of the Juvenile Court Procedural Rules Committee; the proposal having been published before adoption at 37 Pa.B. 1306 (March 24, 2007), in the Atlantic Reporter (Second Series Advance Sheets, Vol. 915, March 16, 2007), and on the Supreme Court web-page, and an Explanatory Report to be published with this ORDER: IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Article V, Section 10 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania that new Rule 140 and the amendments to Rules 120, 123, 124, 360, 364, and 800 of the Rules of Juvenile Court Procedure are adopted in the attached form. This ORDER shall be processed in accordance with Pa.R.J.A. 103(b), and shall be effective June 1, 2008.
The rule changes can be viewed at: http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Supreme/out/438spct.1attach.pdf
and
http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Supreme/out/438spct.1rpt.pdf
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Rule of Criminal Procedure 105 has been amended.
The new rule can be viewed at: http://www.aopc.org/OpPosting/Supreme/out/362crim.2atttach.pdf
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The Pa. Supreme Court adopted a number of changes to the Rules of Criminal Procedure between June 2006 and November 2007.
Those rule changes can be viewed at http://www.aopc.org/index/supctcmtes/CrimRulesCmte/dockcrm.asp.