Court Opinion

ID: 2792283
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-04-08 23:06:50.823907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:17:41.461385
License: Public Domain

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                           MIDDLE DISTRICT

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 328 MAL 2014
                              :
                Petitioner    :
                              : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the
                              : Order of the Superior Court
           v.                 :
                              :
                              :
GABRIEL J. MARTINEZ,          :
                              :
                Respondent    :

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 329 MAL 2014
                              :
              Petitioner      :
                              : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the
                              : Order of the Superior Court
         v.                   :
                              :
                              :
SHAWN PATRICK MCGINNIS JR.,   :
                              :
              Respondent      :

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 330 MAL 2014
                              :
              Petitioner      :
                              : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the
                              : Order of the Superior Court
         v.                   :
                              :
                              :
ADAM MACKENZIE GRACE,         :
                              :
              Respondent      :

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 331 MAL 2014
                              :
            Petitioner        :
                                         : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the
                                         : Order of the Superior Court
             v.                          :
                                         :
                                         :
CHRISTINA J. LASATER,                    :
                                         :
                   Respondent            :

                                      ORDER

PER CURIAM

      AND NOW, this 8th day of April, 2015, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is

GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:

      (1)    Whether the Superior Court’s application of its decision Commonwealth v.
             Hainesworth to the instant cases impermissibly expanded the contract
             clause to bind the Commonwealth to collateral consequences over which
             the Commonwealth has no control?

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