Court Opinion

ID: 9640159
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:59:09.114977+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:27.528325
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion filed by
STEVENS, J.
¶ 1 I respectfully disagree with the Majority’s sweeping policy proclamation that “... the prisoner mailbox rule applies to all pro se legal filings by incarcerated litigants.” Rather, I would address the issue on a case-by-case basis consistent with established case law.
¶2 Moreover, sweeping policy changes in the law should come from the duly elected state legislators, not the court. Any extension of the prisoner mailbox rule to civil cases, therefore, is a question to be decided by the Pennsylvania Legislature, where the issue can be appropriately debated in an open and public forum.