Stating in a published opinion what it had previously held in an unpublished memorandum, the state Superior Court has ruled that when a case is removed from state court to federal court, the state court's orders are "transformed" into federal court orders that must be appealed in federal court.
In so holding, the state Superior Court ruled that when an asbestos case was removed from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the state court's order granting summary judgment to the defendant became a federal court order, which the plaintiff failed to challenge on appeal.
