This timely consolidated appeal followed. The trial court granted appellee's motion and dismissed appellants' complaints for lack of jurisdiction without prejudice to refile in New Jersey. Appellee then filed a motion to dismiss each appellant's complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction or alternatively, to apply New Jersey substantive and procedural law to the case. Appellee filed an answer and new matter, alleging that it was a sovereign public entity of the state of New Jersey and thus entitled to the protections of the New Jersey Tort Claims Act. 311, which pertains to interlocutory appeals as of right. Appellee appealed to this court, and we quashed the appeal as being interlocutory and not meeting the requirements of Pa. The trial court denied the objections, holding that appellee's claim of immunity had to be pleaded in new matter and would only be entertained in a motion for judgment on the pleadings. In response to appellants' complaints, appellee filed preliminary objections in which it averred that it is a sovereign entity of the State of New Jersey and thus, immune from suit in Pennsylvania pursuant to the New Jersey Tort Claims Act, N.J.S.A. The complaints also averred that appellee maintains a place of business in Philadelphia and regularly conducts business there. In their complaints, appellants, Lisa Flamer and Nadine Thomas, averred that they are residents of Philadelphia who were injured while riding on a bus owned and operated by appellee, New Jersey Transit, which was involved in a motor vehicle accident in New Jersey. 4, § 1, required this Commonwealth to recognize the New Jersey Tort Claims Act and to transfer these cases to New Jersey. Transit") and (2) in determining that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution, *353 Art. Appellants, Lisa Flamer and Nadine Thomas, contend that the trial court erred (1) in considering and granting a motion for judgment on the pleadings made by appellee, N.J. This is a consolidated appeal from orders dismissing these cases for lack of jurisdiction. Girsh, Philadelphia, for appellee.īefore CAVANAUGH, FORD ELLIOTT and HOFFMAN, JJ. Melissa Lang, Philadelphia, for appellant (at 467). *352 Sheldon Tabb, Philadelphia, for appellant (at 192).
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