Court Opinion

ID: 9703639
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:02:53.558984+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:50.860381
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PALLADINO, Judge,
dissenting.
Today, the majority creates causes of action for 'wrongful adoption and negligent placement of an adoptive child and in so doing, reverses the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County with respect to the demurrers to counts I and II of the Gibbses’ complaint. I respectfully dissent and would affirm the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County.
I believe that the origination of causes of action is the province and prerogative of the General Assembly through the promulgation of statutory law and of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania through the delineation of common law. See Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways, 479 Pa. 384, 388 A.2d 709 (1978); Armstrong v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, 46 Pa.Commonwealth Ct. 33, 405 A.2d 1099 (1979). The majority admits that “there is no precedential body of Pennsylvania statutory or case law” which acknowledges the torts of wrongful adoption and negligent placement of an adoptive child. Therefore, I would refrain from recognizing such causes of action.