Although the Pennsylvania Superior Court does not have explicit guidelines for choosing to grant en banc reargument, judges and attorneys said the cases that are reargued often involve conflicting panels or issues of first impression.
The Superior Court, the busiest appellate court in Pennsylvania, convenes only three times a year to hear reargument, unlike the Commonwealth Court, which schedules reargument sessions eight to nine times a year, according to Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Correale F. Stevens, a former president judge of the Superior Court.
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