Court Opinion

ID: 9939583
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-10 17:11:14.577962+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:41:26.183045
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    NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT O.P. 65.37

    GERALD S. LEPRE AND JESSICA L.             :   IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
    LEPRE, HIS WIFE                            :        PENNSYLVANIA
                                               :
                       Appellants              :
                                               :
                                               :
                v.                             :
                                               :
                                               :   No. 1453 WDA 2022
    BMW OF NORTH AMERICA, LLC AND              :
    SEWICKLEY CAR STORE, INC. D/B/A            :
    SEWICKLEY BMW                              :

              Appeal from the Order Entered November 8, 2022
      In the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County Civil Division at
                           No(s): AR-21-004361

BEFORE: BOWES, J., KUNSELMAN, J., and MURRAY, J.

JUDGMENT ORDER BY BOWES, J.:                       FILED: February 7, 2024

       Gerald S. and Jessica L. Lepre have appealed pro se from an order that

clarified and amended prior orders that transferred some claims to arbitration,

dismissed Gerald Lepre as a plaintiff as to some counts, and stayed other

claims pending the disposition of the arbitration.1 In this Court, the Lepres

filed a bevy of applications for relief and obtained a continuance of the oral

argument initially scheduled for November 14, 2023.            The matter was

rescheduled for argument to take place on January 30, 2024. When the case

was called, counsel for Sewickley Car Store d/b/a Sewickley BMW appeared.

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1 This Court issued, then discharged, a rule to show cause why the appeal
should not be quashed as interlocutory, and deferred ruling on whether the
appeal was properly from a collateral order.
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The Lepres did not, nor did they advise the Court of any emergency prohibiting

their participation.

       Pursuant to the Rules of Appellate Procedure, “[i]f appellant or the

moving party is not ready to proceed when a case is called for oral argument,

the matter may be dismissed as of course.” Pa.R.A.P. 2314. We elect to do

so with this appeal.2

       Appeal dismissed.

 2/7/2024

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2 Even if we did not dismiss the appeal pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 2314, we would,

for the reasons explained in the trial court’s opinion, quash it as being taken
from a non-appealable interlocutory order. See Trial Court Opinion, 4/3/23,
at 6-9.

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