The risk of missing a filing deadline is a major—if not the principal—source of anxiety among legal professionals. That concern is well-founded: an honest miscalculation, miscommunication, or unexpected emergency resulting in a late filing can have disastrous consequences, particularly at the appellate level. While a judicial reprieve for a late-filed appeal is theoretically possible under Pennsylvania law, the Superior Court recently issued a stark reminder that, absent fraud or an administrative breakdown, permission to appeal nunc pro tunc will be granted only in the most extraordinary circumstances.
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