Court Finds Incarcerated Person Seeking Fee Waiver for Copies of Legal Documents Lacks Standing

Medical malpractice defendants filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint. The court sustained the preliminary objections in part and overruled them in part.

Court Finds City Liable for Injuries Sustained in Slip and Fall on Sidewalk

Court Finds Acquittee's Constitutional Rights Were Not Violated

A saltwater reclamation company, that filed suit to quiet title, successfully proved on appeal that the trial court erred in finding no genuine issues of material fact to justify summary judgment.

Following a plea of not guilty, appellant was convicted by a jury of delivery of a controlled substance and sentenced to sixty-one years of confinement.

A mother, who had her parental rights terminated by the trial court, successfully proved on appeal that there was insufficient evidence to justify termination by clear and convincing evidence.

Unemployment benefits claimant appealed the denial of benefits on the grounds he was self-employed and court found no error in Unemployment Compensation Board of Review's reasoning that the positive steps analysis was applicable to a determination of whether an individual was self-employed in a stand-alone context under the law after he had been separated from his employment and, under that analysis, claimant was self-employed under the law. Affirmed.

Court denied motion to intervene in class action as untimely where the motion was filed following preliminary approval of a settlement that restricted and excluded movant from the class definition, and where motions to intervene early in litigation would enable the court to determine the plaintiff(s) best suited to represent the class. Motion to intervene denied.

Appellant appealed the trial court's parole-revocation judgment of sentence after denial of appellant's motion for reconsideration. Appellant argued that because his maximum remaining sentence after parole revocation would be less than two years, he should have been recommitted to county, rather than state, prison. The court affirmed, holding that appellant was property recommitted to state prison on his original seven-year sentence after revocation of his parole.