The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will not take up an appeal from a Philadelphia attorney seeking to overturn a nearly $230,000 judgment against him for allegedly failing to pay back a $25,000 litigation funding loan.

The high court denied allocatur April 23 in Lawyers Funding Group v. Martucci. Defendants John Martucci Jr. and Martucci Law Offices had appealed from a Oct. 26, 2018, per curiam judgment order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that dismissed the defendants’ appeal “for failure to comply with Pa.R.C.P. 227.1 (requiring the filing of post-sentence motions) and Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) (requiring the filing of a statement of errors complained of on appeal).”