Effective March 2, petitions for allowance of appeal filed in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and answers to such petitions, will be subject to a 9,000-word limit. At present, no word limit applies to this most frequently employed method for seeking discretionary review of rulings issued by Pennsylvania’s intermediate appellate courts.
Although no word limit currently applies to petitions for allowance of appeal, formerly known as allocatur petitions, the Pennsylvania Rules of Appellate Procedure have always stressed the importance of brevity in preparing such petitions. As a result, in my own practice, I cannot recall any instances where a petition for allowance of appeal that I have filed came anywhere near to approaching the word limit that will soon take effect. On the other hand, I do recall numerous instances where Pennsylvania’s highest court has granted petitions for allowance of appeal that I have drafted that were significantly shorter than the forthcoming word limit.
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