• Amres Corp. v. Ayzenberg

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-01224 (Consolidated)

    Appellant appealed the court's order granting an award of sanctions in favor of appellees. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where the court imposed proportionate sanctions that were consistent with the size and import of the litigation in response to appellant's willful, intentional and purposeful violation of the court's consent order, which incorporated the parties' negotiated settlement of their dispute.

  • Blair v. Northampton Twp. Police Dep't

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-04244

    Petitioner appealed the court's order denying his petition for review of respondent's refusal to provide copies of specified police bodycam video. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where petitioner offered no verified factual basis to overcome respondent's verified, articulated reasons for withholding police bodycam video that was pertinent to an ongoing investigation.

  • ETD Group, L.L.C. v. Factor

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | Transportation
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-06673

    In a §1925(a) opinion, the court urged that defendant's appeal be dismissed and the court's decision denying a motion for post-trial relief and granting specific performance to plaintiff ETD Group on its third contract for the purchase of defendant's three lots of business property be affirmed.

  • Mullen v. Mullen

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A06-20-61132-D-37

    The court issued its §1925(a) opinion in support of its order assigning marital values to various pieces of property owned by the divorcing couple and its order of a 50/50 equitable distribution and asserted it did not abuse the broad discretion afforded judges in determining those questions and applying the factors set forth in 23 Pa. C.S.A. §3502(a).

  • Laustsen v. Pennridge Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Education
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Yeager
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-01022

    Petitioner appealed a decision of the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records affirming respondent school district's contention that it had sufficiently responded to petitioner's public records request under the Right-to-Know Law. The court granted the petition and reversed the decision of the OOR where respondent thwarted public access to information by altering records responsive to petitioner's request in an attempt to cover up the removal of books from a high school library's shelves. The court directed respondent to provide fully res

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  • In Re: Estate of Poleshuk

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2015-E0692

    Father, proceeding pro se, appealed the court's order removing him as guardian of the estate of his incapacitated adult son. The court concluded that it did not err in refusing to grant father additional continuances of its scheduled hearing on the matter, or in decreeing that father should be removed as his son's estate guardian.

  • Orbit Stones, Inc. v. Atlantis Granite, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction | Distribution and Wholesale
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Mellon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-02495

    The court filed an opinion pursuant to 210 Pa. Code §1925(a) justifying its order after a bench trial on a breach of contract case that plaintiff presented no credible evidence of an amount due from defendant.

  • Orbit Stones, Inc. v. 3KD Marble & Granite, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Construction | Distribution and Wholesale
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Mellon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-02466

    Plaintiff appealed the court's order denying its motion for post-trial relief. The court concluded that it did not err in denying plaintiff recovery for amounts allegedly owed by a customer where it failed to offer consistent, properly-calculated, and complete evidence of the customer's alleged outstanding debt.

  • Matey v. Hahn

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2015-02934

    In a civil action that had been pending since 2015, the court requested that its order denying the defendant's motion to rescind its March 31, 2023, order directing the parties to proceed to compulsory arbitration pursuant to Bucks County Rule 1301 be upheld.

  • Walker v. County of Bucks

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Baldi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-03332

    Appellant appealed the court's verdict in favor of appellee in appellant's action for mandamus relief on his Right-to-Know Law public records request. The court requested that appellant's appeal be denied where appellant failed to preserve issues for appeal and where his right to mandamus was not clear.