Fallout from the Third Circuit’s decision in June establishing GlaxoSmithKline as a corporate citizen of Delaware, not Pennsylvania, could land back in the appeals court.

The chief judge of the Middle District of Pennsylvania has certified for interlocutory appeal a question on which district judges have split since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued that June opinion, which had the effect of preserving the pharmaceutical giant’s ability to remove cases filed against it in the Pennsylvania state courts to federal court based on diversity jurisdiction.

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