The state Supreme Court has granted allocatur in a case over whether Pennsylvania law provided a cause of action to taxpayers who sued a law firm for the administrative costs they paid the firm for collecting real estate taxes.

Last July, an en banc Commonwealth Court panel upheld nearly $2.35 million in damages and attorney fees that Michelle Portnoff and her firm, Portnoff Law Associates of Norristown, Pa., were ordered to pay to the class.