Rule Text
Section 1 of the Act approved May 9, 1889, P. L. 154, No. 171, 52 P. S. § 1, insofar as it relates to actions of mandamus to recover bodies of entombed coal miners, is suspended in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of 1968, Article V, Section 10(c).
Amendment history: The provisions of this Rule 1100 adopted March 11, 1991, effective July 1, 1991, 21 Pa.B. 1274.
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
This rule suspends part of an old 1889 Pennsylvania law, but only for a very specific situation: lawsuits filed to recover the bodies of coal miners who died and were buried in a mine.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has the power to suspend outdated laws that conflict with court rules. Here, the court used that power to set aside this particular section of the 1889 law so that normal court procedures apply instead.