Court Opinion

ID: 9695277
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:14:24.861961+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:10.621117
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McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the majority. The appellant was not denied his right to appeal. He was sanctioned under the salutary provisions of 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 2503(7) because the Commonwealth Court found his action dilatory. To my mind he is saved only because, as Mr. Justice Flaherty points out, his arguments rejected by the Commonwealth Court were never fully adjudicated by this Court. The right to appeal is constitutionally preserved. The duty to sanction the manifest abuse of that right must also be preserved.