{"id":9600,"date":"2023-02-18T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9600"},"modified":"2023-02-24T07:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:46:54","slug":"new-pa-r-o-c-p-1-22-and-non-precedential-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9600","title":{"rendered":"New Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.22 and Non-Precedential Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court has adopted new Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.22, which provides that \u201cCitation of authorities in matters subject to these rules shall be in accordance with Pa.R.A.P. 126.\u201d  &#8220;In re: Order Adopting Rule 1.22 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Orphans&#8217; Court Procedure, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/Order%20Entered%20-%20105432884212596635.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 936 Supreme Court Rules Docket<\/a>&#8221; (2\/13\/2023), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol53\/53-8\/253.html\" target=\"_blank\">53 Pa.B. 1052<\/a> (2\/25\/2023).  (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/attach1%20-%20105432884212596620.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Rule 1.22<\/a> was &#8220;attached&#8221; to the order, but is a separate document on the AOPC server.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pacode?file=\/secure\/pacode\/data\/210\/chapter1\/s126.html&amp;d=reduce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pa.R.A.P. 126<\/a>(b)(2) states that \u201cNon-precedential decisions as defined in (b)(1) may be cited for their persuasive value.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cNon-precedential decision\u201d is defined by (b)(1) to include an unpublished non-precedential memorandum decision of the Superior Court filed after May 1, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/report%20-%20105432884212596602.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Adoption Report<\/a> of multiple rules committees, including the Orphans&#8217; Court rules committee, was also docketed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new rule will be effective April 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[DBE Comment: I have not regularly reported opinions of the Superior Court labeled \u201cnon-precedential\u201d because I took the Superior Court at its word and thought that the opinions were non-precedential.  But it now appears that non-precedential decisions are semi-precedential.  So I will be reporting non-precedential opinions in the future.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has adopted new Pa.R.O.C.P. 1.22, which provides that \u201cCitation of authorities in matters subject to these rules shall be in accordance with Pa.R.A.P. 126.\u201d &#8220;In re: Order Adopting Rule 1.22 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Orphans&#8217; Court &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9600\">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":[29,36],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-9600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-regulations","tag-pa-o-c-rules","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600","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=9600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9625,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9600\/revisions\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}