Legal Opinion

Shearer, D., Aplts. v. Hafer, S.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 18, 2018No. 93 MAP 2016PublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

JUSTICE TODD

In this appeal by allowance, we granted allocatur to consider, inter alia, the collateral order doctrine and whether a plaintiff in a civil personal injury action has the right to have counsel present and to record a neuropsychological examination of that plaintiff by a defendant’s neuropsychologist under Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 4010. For the reasons set forth below, we find that Appellants have not satisfied the collateral order doctrine, and, thus, we quash the present appeal as an unauthorized interlocutory appeal, vacate the' order of the Superior Court,…

2Cases cited31 opinions

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3Cited by56 opinions

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