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  • Commonwealth v. Cosby

    Publication Date: 2021-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 21-0796

    District attorney's press release declining prosecution to induce defendant to testify in related civil lawsuit precluded commonwealth from subsequently bringing criminal charges and using that civil suit testimony. Judgment of conviction vacated.

  • Degliomini v. ESM Productions, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0763

    City could not rely on exculpatory release executed by participant in charity bike ride to immunize the city from claims of negligence arising from the city's purported failure to maintain streets, where a party that had duty of public service could not contractually immunize itself from liability arising from the execution of that duty. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.

  • Domus, Inc. v. Signature Bldg. Sys. of PA, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-07-05
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0764

    Failure to submit authenticated copy of foreign judgment did not deprive trial court of jurisdiction to hear action to enforce the judgment, but at most could only implicate the trial court's power to ultimately enforce the judgment. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Harth

    Publication Date: 2021-07-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 21-0758

    Trial court was required to first find that commonwealth acted with due diligence in bringing criminal defendant to trial before relying on the court's own unavailability to deny a Rule 600 motion. Judgment of sentence reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Rogers

    Publication Date: 2021-05-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0594

    Sexual assault victims' prostitution convictions were inadmissible under the Rape Shield Law to support defendant's contention that his encounters with the victims were consensual sex-for-money transactions where those underlying convictions involved individuals other than defendant. Order of the superior court affirmed in part and reversed in part.

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  • In re: B.W.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-31
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-0592

    The superior court properly found that §301 of the Mental Health Procedures Act requires a showing of a threat and an act in furtherance of that threat to warrant involuntary treatment based upon a clear and present danger; however, the court erred in ordering the expungement of petitioner's treatment records because the evidence at bar did in fact satisfy that standard. The high court reversed.

  • Terra Firma Builders, LLC v. King

    Publication Date: 2021-05-17
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0543

    By holding that defendants waived their challenge to an unperfected mechanics' lien, despite the fact that §505 of the the Mechanics' Lien Law places no time limit on challenges raised in subsequent proceedings, the superior court improperly attempted to give legal force to an invalid judgment on the lien. The high court reversed.

  • Pittsburgh Logistics Sys., Inc. v. Beemac Trucking, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-05-17
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-0551

    Superior court properly held that a no-hire or "no poach" agreement ancillary to a services contract between business entities was not enforceable because balancing the overbreadth of the provision and the likelihood of harm to the public showed that provision unreasonably restrained trade. Affirmed.

  • Wise v. Huntingdon County Housing Dev Corp.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-17
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-0539

    The lower courts erred in holding that plaintiff's claim could not be encompassed within the real estate exception to sovereign immunity where she alleged that insufficient lighting on Commonwealth realty stemming from the existence and location of a light pole, tree and sidewalk created a dangerous condition. The high court reversed and remanded.

  • Philadelphia Gas Works v. Pennsylvania Pub. Util. Comm'n

    Publication Date: 2021-05-17
    Practice Area: Public Utilities
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-0541

    The commonwealth court erred in concluding that the docketing of a municipal lien in Philadelphia County, i.e., the only first-class city in the commonwealth, acted not as a judgment but only to perfect the municipal lien, thereby allowing interest at a greater rate than the statutory post-judgment rate of six percent per annum. The high court reversed.