Motion List & Order on Application released on:August 17, 2022

County's acknowledgement of inadequate ICWA inquiry following entry of jurisdictional and dispositional orders renders reversal of those orders unnecessary

Court Holds Insurance Company Has No Duty to Defend or Indemnify Insured Driver

Handdown List released on:August 17, 2022

Appellant pled guilty to receipt of child pornography and the district court sentenced him to 84 months' imprisonment followed by a 10-year term of supervised release.

The district court did not err in denying a motion to compel arbitration where the defendant was not a signatory to the arbitration agreement at issue, and agency principles did not allow that defendant to enforce the arbitration agreement between plaintiff and a related corporate entity. The appellate court affirmed.

Court Grants Insurer's Motion to Dismiss

SVPA does not permit district attorney to call privately retained expert to testify at trial

Plaintiff did not meet the requirements of Pa.R.Civ.P. 2005(c) in her motion to amend a complaint to replace a John Doe designation with the defendant's actual name where she failed to file that motion within 20 days after the actual name of the defendant had been identified. The court denied plaintiff's motion for leave to amend.

Plaintiff moved to remand his suit back to state court, alleging that removal of the case violated the forum defendant rule and that the subject defendant was not fraudulently joined to the case.