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Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Practice Area: Public Records
Industry: Health Care
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 18-0703
The proposal documents sought by petitioner, an unsuccessful bidder on a request for proposal, remained exempt from disclosure under §708(b)(26) of the Right-to-Know Law where there had been a selection of offerors but no award of contract. The appellate court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Practice Area: Government | Tax
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 18-0656
The trial court erred in holding that once two school districts elected to opt out of the Carbon County Tax Claim Bureau's collection services under the Real Estate Tax Sale Law, the Bureau was not authorized to act as the districts' agent for tax collection purposes and, thus, the districts' property tax claims had a fourth priority status. The court reversed and remanded.
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Construction
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 18-0663
Board properly found that claimant had a fixed place of work at the time of the automobile accident that injured him, that his employment agreement with employer did not contain provisions for travel, there was no evidence that employer provide or controlled the means of claimant's commute and no exception to the "going and coming" rule applied. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Land Use and Planning
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 18-0653
Neither res judicata nor collateral estoppel barred the applicant's most recent request for a zoning special exception because applicant proceeded under different theories and sought different relief from that it sought in two prior zoning applications. The appellate court reversed on other grounds.
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 18-0662
Mother's challenge to the secretary's order denying her request for reconsideration of department decision to dismiss her appeal of an in-dicated report of child abuse was denied because mother failed to respond to the rule to show cause or to timely petition for review of the dismissal of her appeal and neither her petition for review nor her brief addressed the validity of the secretary's decision and thus, her challenge to the validity of that decision was waived. Affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Practice Area: Administrative Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Pellegrini
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Case Number: 18-0623
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Licensing did not err in applying §3806(b) of the Vehicle Code retroactively to impose a one-year suspension of licensee's operating privileges for a second DUI offense since the triggering date for suspension was the date licensee was sentenced, not the date he committed the underlying offense. The appellate court affirmed a trial court order upholding the suspension of licensee's driving privileges.
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 18-0631
Parole revocation board was not obligated to hold revocation hearing until parole violator's return to state custody from serving out-of-state or federal sentence. Adjudication of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Land Use and Planning
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Simpson
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Case Number: 18-0624
The trial court did not err in finding the res judicata defense unavailing to respondent, who was named in multiple zoning enforcement actions, since each of the seven enforcement actions covered a different period and, thus, the requisite identities were not present. The appellate court affirmed the trial court's decision.
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Practice Area: Discovery
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 18-0626
The trial court did not err in finding that a spreadsheet containing information about donors to a City of Harrisburg fund set up to defray legal expenses associated with defending local firearm ordinances was not a "financial record" under the Right-to-Know Law and, thus, the spreadsheet was exempt from disclosure under the law's donor exception. The appellate court affirmed the trial court's order.
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Brobson
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Case Number: 18-0629
Search warrant to search for any game or wildlife parts overbroad where affidavit in support of probable cause referred solely to the unreported killing of a particular deer and retention of its parts in violation of the Game and Wildlife Code. Order of the trial court reversed, judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.
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