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  • MFW Wine Co., LLC v. Liquor Control Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 75 MAP 2022

    Commonwealth Court did not err in allowing mandamus damages in appellees' actions against the liquor control board for failing to perform its duty to implement direct shipment of orders to customers because PLCB was a "person" subject to mandamus damages under 42 Pa. C.S. §8303 and sovereign immunity did not bar mandamus damages sought pursuant to that provision. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Greer

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McCaffery
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    Case Number: 87 MAP 2023

    Superior court erred in requiring Post Conviction Relief Act counsel to submit a merits brief after learning of defendant's intention to assert ineffective assistance claims against PCRA counsel, and should have instead remanded the case to the PCRA court. Order of the superior court reversed and remanded.

  • Caldwell v. Jaurigue

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 30 MAP 2023

    Appellant appealed the Superior Court's order requiring that he pay child support to child's biological father. The court reversed, holding that a deceased mother's paramour, who obtained in loco parentis standing and was awarded partial physical custody of child, had no child support liability where he did not have legal custody and thus was not child's "parent."

  • N.W.M. v. Langenbach

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 25 EAP 2022

    The court declined to provide categorical quasi-judicial immunity to guardians ad litem and ruled that the Superior Court has the authority to decide novel issues of law. The case was remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Torsilieri

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 97 MAP 2022

    Subchapter H of THE Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act was not unconstitutional where the irrebuttable presumption of recidivism did not violate the right to reputation as scientific consensus did not rebut that presumption. Order of the trial court reversed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Dowling

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 795 CAP

    Commonwealth appealed an order granting appellee collateral relief under the Post Conviction Relief Act. The court reversed, concluding that the PCRA court erred in awarding appellee a new trial where appellee could not establish prejudice or materiality below in light of overwhelming evidence of appellee's guilt, as reflected in a supplemental PCRA court opinion requested by the court on remand.

  • MBC Dev., LP v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 1 MAP 2023

    Superior court erred in vacating stay of arbitration of challenge to LP's special litigation committee determination where such determinations had to be reviewed by the courts pursuant to Pennsylvania Uniform Limited Partnership Act and the partnership agreement expressly stated that it was to be construed under Pennsylvania law. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Womack

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 110 MAP 2022

    Court correctly denied Pa.R.Crim.P.600 motion for second complaint arising from same criminal conduct where second complaint was motivated by further investigation after first complaint and there was no evidence of an attempt to evade the rule. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Evidence
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 31 EAP 2022

    Inadmissible hearsay evidence alone was insufficient to satisfy the commonwealth's burden to prove a prima facie case as to a defendant's identity at a preliminary hearing. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Dwyer v. Ameriprise Fin., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 2 WAP 2023

    Trial court erred in concluding that plaintiffs were not entitled to treble damages under the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law after the jury had already awarded them punitive damages on their tort claims. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.