Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Filing Timing and Cure Windows

CRITICALCivil cases

A party may file an amended pleading as of course within 20 days after service of the preliminary objections, and the objections will then be marked moot.

(2) As provided in Pa.R.C.P. 1028(c)(1), any party may file an amended pleading as of course within twenty (20) days after service of when preliminary objections are fully registered in the case of the party may, upon the timely filed, have the preliminary objections administratively marked “moot”.

CRITICALCivil cases

The filing attorney must file a Praecipe informing the Arbitration Center of ripeness within 90 days of the conclusion of the underlying uninsured/underinsured claim.

The filing attorney shall advise the Arbitration Center that the case is ripe for Compulsory Arbitration hearing, the underlying uninsured/underinsured claim having been concluded on Recommendation by him, but shall file a Praecipe substantially in the form set forth hereunder within 90 days of the conclusion of the underlying uninsured/underinsured claim.

CRITICALCivil cases

Non-moving parties must file their response to the motion for judgment within 20 days of service, and include any brief or memorandum of law permitted.

(2) the non-moving parties shall file a response within twenty (20) days of entry or service of the motion, may attach any attachments not included in the motion, and shall include the brief that is or is not within the provisions of the motion as specified by the motion party, and must include a brief or memorandum of law, as provided in Phila.Civ.R. "*210;

CRITICALCivil cases

An answer to preliminary objections must be filed within 20 days only where the objections raise certain enumerated issues (Pa.R.C.P. 1028(a)(1),(5)-(8)) and a notice to the pleading is attached; being unnecessary, an answer is not required for issues under (a)(2)-(4).

An answer to preliminary objections is required (within twenty (20) days after service of the preliminary objections) only to preliminary objects raising an issue under Pa.R.C.P. 1028(a)(1),(5),(6),(7) or (8), provided the notice to plead from, if an answer is demanded, an answer will need not be filed in any ancillary / under rules (2), (3), and (4).

WARNING

The Municipal Court Administrator must set and note the trial date on the complaint, scheduling trial no more than 30 days from the date the action is commenced.

Rule 113. Trial Assignment. Upon commencement of the action, the Municipal Court Administrator shall set the time and place for trial and shall note the same upon the complaint. Said trial shall be scheduled not more than 30 days from the date that the action is commenced.

WARNINGCivil cases

When a petition to transfer a major case to arbitration after six months is granted, the arbitration hearing is scheduled no sooner than 60 days from that order.

If the petition to Transfer From Major Arbitration is granted, the Office of Judicial Records shall assign an arbitration he/she will be held not later than 10 days from the date of the hearing, and the arbitration hearing notice.