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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 12-1940

THE COURTS

Title 249—PHILADELPHIA RULES

PHILADELPHIA RULES

Amendment of Commerce Case Management Program; Administrative Doc. No. 02 of 2003

[42 Pa.B. 6262]
[Saturday, October 6, 2012]

Order

 And Now, this 18th day of September, 2012, it is hereby Ordered and Decreed that effective immediately, Section B. 1. 7. is amended to read as follows:

B. Assignment of Cases Subject to Commerce Program

 1. Cases Subject to Commerce Program. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in General Court Regulation 95-2 (Day Forward Program) or any other General Court Regulation, Jury, Non-Jury & Equity, and Class Action cases filed on or after January 1, 2000, but not Arbitration cases, shall be assigned to the Commerce Program if they are among the following types of actions:

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 7. Derivative actions and class actions based on claims otherwise falling within these ten types, such as shareholder class actions, but not including consumer class actions, personal injury class actions, and products liability class actions;

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 The Commerce Program Addendum shall be revised to reflect this amendment. All other provisions of Administrative Docket No. 02 of 2003 shall remain in full force and effect.

 This Order is issued in accordance with Pa.R.C.P. No. 239 and the April 11, 1986 Order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District, No. 55 Judicial Administration. The original order shall be filed with the Prothonotary in a Docket maintained for Administrative orders issued by the Administrative Judge of the Trial Division, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, and shall be submitted to the Pennsylvania Bulletin for publication. Copies of the order shall be submitted to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, the Civil Procedural Rules Committee, American Lawyer Media, The Legal Intelligencer, Jenkins Memorial Law Library, and the Law Library for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and shall be posted on the website of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania: http://www.courts.phila. gov/regs.

By the Court

HONORABLE JOHN W. HERRON, 
Administrative Judge, Trial Division

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 12-1940. Filed for public inspection October 5, 2012, 9:00 a.m.]


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