A dispute that could determine whether Pennsylvania’s unique corporate registration statute can give state courts jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants has been transferred to the state’s highest court.

On Friday, a three-judge Superior Court panel transferred the case, captioned Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway, to the state Supreme Court, finding that the case had to come before the justices under a provision in the Judiciary Code that says the Supreme Court “shall have exclusive jurisdiction” over appeals from any common pleas decision that finds a state statute is “repugnant to the Constitution.”