The state Supreme Court has denied the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ request that the justices address the permissible scope of bystander recovery under Pennsylvania’s products liability law.
The 3rd Circuit exercised a rarely-used mechanism that federal courts may use to consult state courts about purely state questions of law when it asked the Supreme Court Jan. 17 to address the permissible scope of bystander recovery for a little girl whose left foot was mangled by a lawn mower driven by her grandfather.
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