{"id":439,"date":"2026-06-29T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=439"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:49:35","slug":"pennsylvania-superior-court-narrowly-interprets-non-negligent-failure-exception-for-untimely-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/06\/29\/pennsylvania-superior-court-narrowly-interprets-non-negligent-failure-exception-for-untimely-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Superior Court Narrowly Interprets &#8220;Non-Negligent Failure&#8221; Exception for Untimely Appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/michaelpest.html\">Michael P. Pest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The risk of missing a filing deadline is a major\u2014if not the principal\u2014source 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article from <em>The Legal Intelligencer<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/pa_superior_court_narrowly_interprets_non_negligent_failure_exception_untimely_appeals_0626.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael P. Pest The risk of missing a filing deadline is a major\u2014if not the principal\u2014source 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/06\/29\/pennsylvania-superior-court-narrowly-interprets-non-negligent-failure-exception-for-untimely-appeals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pennsylvania Superior Court Narrowly Interprets &#8220;Non-Negligent Failure&#8221; Exception for Untimely Appeals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,314,315,316],"ppma_author":[238],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-appellate","tag-michael-pest","tag-non-negligent-failure","tag-superior-court-of-pennsylvania"],"authors":[{"term_id":238,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/10\/dmlogo.jpg","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}