Case Title: Cagey, J. v. PennDOT - No. (Granted) (petitions for allowance of appeal)

Citation: 

Docket Number: 329 WAL 2016

State: pennsylvania

Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Date: 2016-12-13T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN DISTRICT JOISSE A. CAGEY AND DALE J. CAGEY, HER HUSBAND, Petitioners v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, A COMMONWEALTH AGENCY, Respondent : : : : : : : : : : : : : : No. 329 WAL 2016 Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Commonwealth Court ORDER PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 13th day of December, 2016, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is: Has [the] Commonwealth Court improperly expanded this Court’s holding in Dean v. Department of Transportation, 751 A.2d 1130 (Pa. 2000)[,] that the Department has no duty to erect guardrails on Commonwealth real property along Commonwealth agency roadways, by repeatedly holding that when the Department does erect guardrails, it cannot be liable for injuries caused by negligently dangerously designed guardrails?