Court Finds Town Overvalued Property for Tax Assessment Purposes

Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's title VII religious discrimination and retaliation claim over his termination for refusing to get a required COVID vaccine and court found plaintiff identified no religious belief that prevented his taking the vaccine and, thus, defendant did not violate Title VII by not providing an accommodation and plaintiff presented no facts to suggest disparate treatment or religious retaliation. Motion granted.

Appellant, a noncitizen, was arrested under Operation Lone Star and charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass.

Chancery court erred in adopting West Virginia court's factual findings through judicial notice where such facts were disputed by the parties to the present action.

Inadvertent omission of guilty finding in bench trial verdict was not the equivalent of a not-guilty verdict, enabling the trial court to correct its omission in the written verdict. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

Court Credits Town's Expert's Testimony in Real Property Tax Appeals Case

Defendants filed preliminary objections to personal injury plaintiff's civil complaint alleging premises liability. The court overruled defendants' objections to plaintiff's claim of negligence where plaintiff adequately apprised defendants that they were being sued for negligently failing to remedy a dangerous condition of their sidewalk, namely that a portion of the sidewalk was raised above its surroundings and caused plaintiff to trip and fall. The court sustained defendants' objections to plaintiff's allegations of respondeat sup

Court Determines Personal Jurisdiction Exists to Adjudicate Claims

Although officers displayed authority by blocking defendant and commanding him to stop, no seizure occurred where defendant's momentary pause followed by running from the officers meant he never complied with the officers' authority, and his flight gave the officers reasonable suspicion to detain him. Conviction affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated and remanded for resentencing.

The parties entered into a contract for appellee to sell a home to appellant but, at the time of the contract and as of the closing date, appellee did not own the property.