Arguments before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month that delved into whether doctors should be held to a strict liability standard in medical negligence cases veered out of bounds, one of the attorneys who appeared before the justices is contending.

Attorney Stephen Trzcinski, who argued for the plaintiffs in Mitchell v. Shikora during the Supreme Court’s October argument session in Pittsburgh, has filed a post-argument application with the high court, saying opposing counsel focused arguments on issues that the justices had specifically declined to consider, and as a result, the justices should either dismiss the appeal as having been improvidently granted, or allow for more briefing and argument in the case.

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