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  • SLT Holdings, LLC v. Mitch-Well Energy, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-17
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-0540

    The trial court erred in providing plaintiffs recourse through application of the equitable doctrine of abandonment where they could have availed themselves of a full and adequate remedy at law through contract principles generally applicable to oil and gas leases and through the specific provisions of the leases. The high court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Perez

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0517

    Lower court applied wrong standard at preliminary hearing by failing to view evidence in light most favorable to commonwealth and instead adopting inferences favorable to the defendant, thereby erroneously raising the commonwealth's burden of proof. Order of the superior court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Lopez

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-0515

    PCRA petition dismissed as untimely where it raised claims based on underlying facts previously alleged in prior PCRA and habeas petitions, thereby failing to meet the newly-discovered facts exception to the time bar. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Chester Water Auth. v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Cmty. & Econ. Dev.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Consulting | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0509

    The commonwealth court erred in concluding that communications exchanged between a commonwealth agency and a private consultant could be shielded from disclosure under the Right-to-Know Law's pre-decisional deliberations exception. The high court reversed in part and affirmed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Eid

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 21-0512

    The evidence at bar was sufficient to sustain defendant's conviction for refusing to submit to a warrantless breath test, but the driving under suspended license statute under which he was sentenced lacked a statutory maximum penalty and was, therefore, unconstitutionally vague. The high court affirmed defendant's conviction but vacated his sentence.

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  • Commonwealth v. Finnecy

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-0513

    The trial court's failure to impose a sentence under the Recidivism Risk Reduction Act implicated sentencing illegality and, in accordance with Commonwealth v. Cullen-Doyle, defendant's single prior conviction for a non-enumerated crime demonstrating violent behavior did not qualify as a history of past violent behavior barring eligibility under Act. The high court reversed in part, affirmed in part and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Yale

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Evidence
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-0524

    Lower courts erred in applying Pa.R.E. 404(b) to evidence of third person guilt offered by a defendant and found Pa.R.E. 401-403 applied to the admissibility of the evidence. Vacated and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Wardlaw

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 21-0521

    Superior court properly quashed defendant's appeal and found defendant was not entitled to an interlocutory appeal under rule 311(a)(6) where trial court sua sponte declared a mistrial because a court entered an order "awarding a new trial" for the purposes of Pa.R.A.P. 311(a)(6) only when it granted a party's motion for a new trial. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Hairston

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-0514

    Allegations of defects in imposition of capital punishment were insufficient to sustain constitutional challenge to death penalty, which continued to be affirmed by courts and not overturned by the state legislature.

  • Commonwealth v. Speight

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0519

    Trial court erred in not resentencing defendant who had obtained federal habeas relief vacating his death sentence, based on the trial court's determination that the federal court had failed to undertake independent judicial review of the habeas petition but instead merely accepted the agreement of the parties. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.