Court Opinion

ID: 9755774
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:50:02.048306+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:55:59.521107
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I join the majority’s analysis. I write separately only because of my continuing belief that there is nothing discretionary about the entry of summary judgment by a trial court. Pa.R.C.P. 1035(b) permits a trial court to enter a summary judgment if “there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and ... the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.” (emphasis added). Whether to enter a summary judgment is purely a question of law, and the entry of such a judgment will be reversed for an error of law. It is incorrect, therefore, to suggest that a trial court’s entry of summary judgment will be reversed only for an abuse of discretion.