Agreeing with the trial judge that bifurcating the case would go against the public policy in favor of swift adjudications and would create piecemeal litigation, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has declined to separate arbitrable claims from nonarbitrable claims in a dispute over a business partnership, instead allowing the entire case to proceed in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.

In Gallagher v. M. Gallagher & F. Mancuso Partnership, a divided three-judge appellate panel upheld a Bucks County trial judge’s decision to overrule and dismiss the defendants’ preliminary objections to plaintiff Maryanne Gallagher’s second amended complaint.