# Philadelphia Entertainment & Development Partners, L.P. v. City of Philadelphia

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 21, 2007 · 594 Pa. 468

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9765341

## Case

- **Full name:** PHILADELPHIA ENTERTAINMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, L.P. D/B/A/ Foxwoods Casino Philadelphia, Petitioner, v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, City Council for the City of Philadelphia, and Department of Licenses and Inspections of City of Philadelphia, Respondents
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 21, 2007
- **Citations:** 594 Pa. 468; 937 A.2d 385; 2007 Pa. LEXIS 2701
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Baer
- **Judges:** Cappy, C.J., and Castille, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Baldwin and Fitzgerald
- **Cited by:** 36 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that courts of the Commonwealth “should not give answers to academic questions or render advisory opinions or make decisions based on assertions as to hypothetical events that might occur in the future”
- explaining “that while subject matter jurisdiction concerns the power of a court to hear a claim, the doctrine of ripeness concerns the timing of a court[’s] intervention in litigation”

## Opinion text

*489 Justice BAER,
concur.
This Court being prohibited from considering facts not of record, see Welsh v. Bulger, 548 Pa. 504 , 698 A.2d 581, 586 (Pa.1997) (citing, McCaffrey v. Pittsburgh Athletic Association, 448 Pa. 151 , 293 A.2d 51, 57 (Pa.1972) (appellate court cannot consider anything which is not part of the record)), I join in the Court’s per curiam Order denying the Application for Reargument of Petitioner Philadelphia Entertainment and Development Partners L.P. d/b/a/ Foxwoods Casino Philadelphia and Request for Expedited Treatment.

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