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  • Danganan v. Guardian Prot. Serv.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Consumer Protection
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0215

    A non-resident could bring a UTPCPL action against a Pennsylvania-based business for alleged conduct occurring outside the commonwealth, consistent with the UTPCPLs broad goal of fraud prevention and the concern that misconduct by Pennsylvania companies could negatively impact the commonwealth.

  • League of Women Voters of Pa. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0174

    Free and Equal Elections Clause of Pennsylvania Constitution required that representative districts be compact and contiguous, without breaking up counties and municipalities, and of roughly equal population, which best ensured that each voter in every community had an equally effective opportunity to select representatives of his or her choice. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. VanDivner

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0169

    Death sentence vacated where appellant presented sufficient evidence at pretrial hearing to support finding that he was intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for death penalty. Judgment of sentence of death vacated, life sentence imposed.

  • Shearer v. Hafer

    Publication Date: 2018-02-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Expert Witnesses | Motor Vehicle Torts
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0077

    Superior court erred in considering appellants appeal of the trial court order disallowing the presence of appellants counsel during the standardized portion of a neuropsychological examination because the order was not an appealable order as of right under Pa.R.A.P. 313 where the order met only one of the three prongs of the collateral order doctrine. Vacated.

  • Shearer v. Hafer

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0077

    Superior court erred in considering appellants appeal of the trial court order disallowing the presence of appellants counsel during the standardized portion of a neuropsychological examination because the order was not an appealable order as of right under Pa.R.A.P. 313 where the order met only one of the three prongs of the collateral order doctrine. Vacated.

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  • Commonwealth v. Yong

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 18-0107

    Collective knowledge doctrine applicable to justify arrest where arresting officer was working in coordination on execution of search warrant obtained by another officer possessing probable cause for defendants arrest. Order of the superior court reversed.

  • Cnty. of Allegheny v. Workers Compensation Appeal Bd. (Parker)

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 18-0109

    Workers Compensation Act did not authorize an order providing for reimbursement of unreasonable contest counsel fees, even where the employer was later ruled to have a reasonable basis to contest liability. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Pozonsky

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0112

    Respondent judge was disbarred after he resigned his judicial commission and was convicted for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker in his courtroom and using it for recreational purposes while the founder and sitting judge of the drug court, obstructing administration of law and misapplication of entrusted property because respondents grievous conduct far outweighed the mitigation evidence he offered, it severely diminished the publics confidence in the judiciary and respondent offered no causal connection between his addictio

  • Commonwealth v. Wholaver

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 18-0106

    Brady violation claim dismissed where trial counsel obtained and utilized evidence of commonwealth witnesses legal troubles and subsequent favorable treatment following their cooperation as means to impeach their testimony, since additional impeachment evidence would merely have been cumulative. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • SCF Consulting, LLC v. Barrack, Rodos & Bacine

    Publication Date: 2018-01-23
    Practice Area: Contracts | Fee Disputes
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0073

    Superior court erred in upholding the lower courts decision on the unenforceability of appellant non-attorneys fee splitting agreement with appellee attorneys because the action was not per se barred by the violation of rule 5.4 of the rules of professional responsibility since the conduct rules ought not be interposed into substantive law. Reversed.