Opinion ID: 2831059
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: jurisdiction

Text: 3. This is a petition for review of an order finding the petitioner in contempt of court for having respectfully refused to comply with an order entered on the basis of the lower court's ReceIved In Supreme Court JAN 3 0 2015 finding that the petitioner may not invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Accordingly, the order in the court below is final under Pa. R.A.P. 341. 4. Moreover and in the alternative,orders overruling claims of privilege and requiring disclosure are immediately appealable under Pa. R.A.P. 313. Commonwealth v. Harris, 32 A.3d 243, 251 (2011)(reaffirming Ben v. Schwartz, 556 Pa. 475, 729 A.2d 547 (1999)). Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 313(a) provides that [a]n appeal may be taken as of right from a collateral order of...[a] lower court. 5. This Petition for Review is timely as it is filed within ten days of the lower court's contempt order and order that the petitioner may not invoke his constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to certain questions put to him before the grand jury. Both orders were entered on January 12, 2015. See Pa. R.A.P. 1512(b)(3)(requiring the filing of a petition for review within ten days of the entry of a grand jury order). 6. Accordingly, this Court has jurisdiction over this appeal.