{"id":12486,"date":"2026-07-13T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:27:09","slug":"new-titles-for-summaries-of-non-precedential-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12486","title":{"rendered":"New Titles for Summaries of Non-Precedential Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a convenience for our readers, we recently began including &#8220;(Pa. Super.)&#8221; in the titles of summaries of decisions of the Pa. Superior Court that are precedential and will be published in the Atlantic Reporter.  Extending that practice, we will now be including &#8220;(Pa. Super. NP)&#8221; in the titles of summaries of Superior Court opinions that are designated &#8220;non-precedential.&#8221;  (For an explanation of the possible value of those opinions, see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.22 and Non-Precedential Opinions<\/a>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extending this practice still further, when (or if) there are additional issues of the Fiduciary Reporter, the titles of the summaries of those new opinions will include &#8220;(O.C.)&#8221; or, the opinion is not from the Orphans&#8217; Court, some other appropriate designation of the court issuing the opinion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a convenience for our readers, we recently began including &#8220;(Pa. Super.)&#8221; in the titles of summaries of decisions of the Pa. Superior Court that are precedential and will be published in the Atlantic Reporter. Extending that practice, we will &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12487,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}