The state Supreme Court has granted an appeal to a grocery store chain whose lower court appeal of an $18.5 million verdict against it was quashed for failure to file a post-trial motion.
The case of Newman Development Group of Pottstown LLC v. Genuardi’s Family Markets Inc. has received a great deal of attention from appellate lawyers and the Pennsylvania Bar Association through amicus briefs the groups attempted to file in support of the grocer’s argument that its appeal should not have been thrown out on what the groups said was an unclear technicality in the law.
