Rule 1503 Improvident Appeals or Original Jurisdiction Actions

If you file the wrong type of legal paperwork in a Pennsylvania appeals court, the court will not throw out your case just because of that mistake. Instead, the court will treat your filing as if you had filed the correct form, called a petition for review, from the very beginning.

The court may ask you to fix or add to your paperwork to make it clearer. The important thing is that your original filing date stays the same, so you do not lose your place in line or miss any deadlines because of the labeling error.