219 A.3d 600
Pa.
2019

NANCY K. RAYNOR, ESQUIRE AND RAYNOR & ASSOCIATES, P.C. v. MATTHEW D‘ANNUNZIO, ESQUIRE; KLEHR HARRISON HARVEY BRANZBURG LLP; WILLIAM T. HILL, ESQUIRE; MESSA & ASSOCIATES, P.C.; JOSEPH MESSA, JR., ESQUIRE AND ROSALIND W. SUTCH, AS EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF ROSALIND WILSON, DECEASED

No. 300 EAL 2019, No. 301 EAL 2019

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT

November 6, 2019

PETITION OF: MESSA & ASSOCIATES, P.C. & JOSEPH MESSA, JR., ESQUIRE; PETITION OF: MATTHEW D‘ANNUNZIO, ESQUIRE, KLEHR HARRISON HARVEY BRANZBURG LLP, WILLIAM T. HILL, ESQUIRE, AND ROSALIND W. SUTCH, AS EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF ROSALIND WILSON, DECEASED

ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 6th day of November, 2019, the Petitions for Allowance of Appeal at 300 EAL 2019 and 301 EAL 2019 are GRANTED, LIMITED to combined issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all remaining issues.

  1. Whether a request for contempt/sanctions against counsel (among others) contained within a motion for post-trial relief constitutes “civil proceedings” actionable under the Dragonetti Act?
  2. Did the Superior Court attempt to create new Pennsylvania law — in contravention of a number of appellate decisions — giving [respondent], a disqualified attorney, standing to assert a cause of action under the Dragonetti Act when she was not a party to the underlying action?