To: John von Terzian
Restrict Interlocutory Rulings
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Appellate Courts in Pennsylvania should rely as little as possible on invoking a Finding of „Interlocutory” in order to deny a Party to a Case the Ability to bring a Challenge to a Ruling. Interlocutory is based on the Principle that the entire Case should be decided before Appelate Challenges to partial Decisions by the Court are permitted. One of the several Reasons for this Doctrine is that it reduces the Workload for the Court. However, most Cases drag for a long Time anyways, so the Argument does not seem to have substantial Merit. However, the Interlocutory Doctrine allows a bad Ruling to be preserved, (if the Ruling is bad) and the Irreparable Damage to the losing Party may be so great as not to allow it to have either the Financial Capability or the Will to challenge partial prior Decisions after the Case is „completed.”
Why is this important?
I am starting this Petition because I have been personally affected by the Issue. I am also starting this Petition because there are some recent Indications that the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has started seeing the Fallacy of this Practice. People should be concerned about this Issue because, if they are involved in Litigation, there may be an Interim Ruling by the Court against them and then they would not be able to challenge the Interim Ruling even if they believe it is wrong, even if it is wrong, until the entire Proceeding has been completed. This has the Effect of weakening a Party which may lose intermediate Steps in a Legal Proceeding although, Overall, the Party may have a valid overall Position.