Maxton v. Philadelphia Housing Authority

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• holding that the preservation clause does not preserve the 1927 Act’s timeliness requirements and concluding that the 30-day statute of limitations of the 1980 Act would apply to a petition for review of an arbitration award
• noting courts have power to extend statutory appeal time when presented with fraud or some breakdown in the court’s operation
• stating that where a petitioner filed an untimely petition to modify under the 1927 Act, “[t]he courts have no power to extend statutory appeal time or to allow an appeal nunc pro tunc in the absence of fraud, or its equivalent, or some breakdown in the court’s operation.”
• trial court lacked jurisdiction to vacate arbitration award because party did not file timely petition under the Act

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