Craig Geness v. Pennsylvania, et al.
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Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), where the record facts support a valid cause of action against AOPC, and where the Circuit's ruling grants sovereign immunity to AOPC, an agency of the Commonwealth, where the record evidence demonstrates that the statutory and constitutional violations suffered by the Petitioner were the direct result of the failure of AOPC to perform its duty to protect the Petitioner from those violations, which obligations were placed upon the Commonwealth, and therefore AOPC, by the United States Congress with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (hereinafter “AOPC”), where the record facts support a valid cause of action against AOPC, and where the Circuit’s ruling grants sovereign immunity to AOPC, an agency of the Commonwealth, where the record evidence demonstrates that the statutory and constitutional violations suffered by the Petitioner were the direct result of the failure of AOPC to perform its duty to protect the Petitioner from those violations, which obligations were placed upon the Commonwealth, and therefore AOPC, by the United States Congress with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (hereinafter “ADA”)?