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  • Commonwealth v. Cobbs

    Publication Date: 2021-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-1012

    Defendant's conviction for assault by a life prisoner and resulting second life sentence could not stand where the lower court had vacated his predicate sentence of life imprisonment based on precedent barring the imposition of life sentences upon juvenile offenders. The high court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Jordan

    Publication Date: 2021-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-1018

    Inconsistent verdicts from simultaneous jury and bench trials did not run afoul of double jeopardy protections where a defendant was being subjected to only one prosecution and inconsistent verdicts were generally permissible. Judgment of the superior court affirmed.

  • Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants, Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0995

    Plaintiffs challenged hospital's withholding of credential committee documents as privileged and court found a hospital credential committee qualified as a "review committee" for purposes of the Peer Review Protection Act, to the extent it undertook peer review, and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act protected from disclosure the responses given by the National Practitioner Data Bank to queries submitted to it. Reversed and vacated.

  • Donovan v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-0991

    Stacking waiver form required by the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law failed to provide sufficient notice that the policyholder was waiving inter-policy stacking in addition to intra-policy stacking where the policy covered multiple vehicles. Matter returned to Third Circuit.

  • In the Interest of S.K.L.R.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-1000

    Superior court erred in reversing trial court's denial of termination of mother's parental rights because superior court exceeded its standard of review and erred in substituting its judgment for that of the trial court. Vacated.

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  • Commonwealth v. Rawls

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0984

    Law enforcement agents did not violate defendant's constitutional rights when, while issuing him Miranda warnings during an interrogation, they failed to specifically apprise defendant that criminal charges already had been filed against him. The high court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Dixon

    Publication Date: 2021-08-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0956

    The trial court erred in instructing the jury that one of the prerequisites necessary to establish the crime of witness intimidation as a first-degree felony had been fulfilled as that instruction violated defendant's right to a jury trial under the U.S. Constitution as interpreted in Apprendi v. New Jersey. The high court reversed.

  • U.S. Venture, Inc. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2021-08-09
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Manufacturing | State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-0906

    Board of claims correctly granted commonwealth's preliminary objections in dispute involving two Alternative and Clean Energy grant agreements for appellant to construct compressed natural gas fuel pumps because the agreements were in fact "grants," were used for the construction of fuel pumps for a private entity and appellant's claim was barred by sovereign immunity. Affirmed.

  • Pennsylvania Envt'l Defense Found. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2021-08-09
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-0909

    Environmental Rights Amendment did not create categories of public beneficiaries that would support the diversion of oil and gas lease revenues into the general fund. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Satterfield

    Publication Date: 2021-08-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-0911

    Trial court erred in convicting and sentencing on multiple counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving death or injury where the statute only concerned the act of leaving the scene, not the number of individuals injured or killed in the accident. Judgment of sentence reversed, case remanded for resentencing.