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  • Commonwealth v. Knox

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-1055

    The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allowed for the imposition of criminal liability upon the defendant based upon his publication of a rap music video containing threatening lyrics. The high court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Markham v. Wolf

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Government | Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-1031

    Executive order directed to parties in home health care services within gubernatorial authority where order merely set forth voluntary, non-binding process for parties to confer with executive departments. Order of the commonwealth court vacated, case remanded for further proceedings.Appellants, Governor Thomas Wolf and the Department of Human Services, appealed from the order of the commonwealth court granting summary judgment to appellees Jessica Markham, Victoria Markham, Jessee Charles, Pennsylvania Homecare Association, and Unit

  • Commonwealth v. Clancy

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 18-1056

    The prosecutor's characterization of defendant as a "dangerous man" and a "cold blooded killer" constituted permissible, if aggressive, oratorical flair in the context of this case: therefore, defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to the remarks. The high court affirmed an order denying defendant post-conviction relief.

  • In Re: Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-1032

    Non-disclosure provision of entry-of-appearance form for grand jury proceedings amended under the court's statutory authority to narrow the scope to track the statutory language requiring secrecy of grand jury proceedings. Order of the supervising judge reversed.

  • Balentine v. Chester Water Auth. et al

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-1030

    The motor vehicle exception to governmental immunity under the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act applied in this case where decedent was struck and killed by a government vehicle. The high court reversed and remanded.

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  • In Re: Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Public Records
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0945

    The high court held that substantial portions of a grand jury's report on alleged child sexual abuse by individuals associated with the Pennsylvania Dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church should be released to the public but that the report should be redacted to protect the identities of petitioners/appellants, who were not afforded an opportunity to appear before the grand jury. The high court issued interim relief.

  • In Re: A.J.R.-H. et al

    Publication Date: 2018-08-07
    Practice Area: Evidence | Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 18-0912

    The trial court erred in admitting into evidence, at a hearing a petition to terminate mother's parental rights, over 150 exhibits under the business records exception to the hearsay rule without any supporting testimony, and the appellate court erred in excusing the admission based on harmless error. The appellate court reversed and remanded.

  • Williams v. City of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2018-08-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Tax
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0917

    Philadelphia beverage tax was not duplicative of state sales tax where taxes were imposed at different levels of commerce. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Washington v. Dept. of Pub. Welfare

    Publication Date: 2018-08-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0922

    Legislature violated Art. III, §4 of the Pennsylvania Constitution where it passed a bill whose contents were completely gutted and replaced without then considering the bill on three separate days in each chamber. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.

  • In the Interest of J.B.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0928

    Superior Court erred in affirming juvenile's adjudication as delinquent for the murder of his stepmother because the evidence was, at best, in equipoise and was insufficient as a matter of law to overcome the presumption of innocence. Reversed.