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  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Crawford

    Publication Date: 2017-12-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1774

    Respondent was disbarred for charging excessive fees, failing to deposit those fees into a trust or IOLTA account; neglecting clients matters, failing to refund unearned or unused fees, making direct and blatant misrepresentations to his clients about expenditures; for inadequate and unprofessional representation by not filing his appearance in a timely fashion and failing to file a pre-trial statement, attend the pre-trial con-ference or make any effort to obtain reports or depose witnesses for trial; failing to file a brief after f

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kotsopoulos

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1716

    Respondent was suspended for one year for filing an action that had no basis in law and in which he was not acting on behalf of a specific client when he filed a petition for appointment of plenary guardian for someone who had been committed to a state hospital and was incapacitated and falsely alleged that a social worker at the hospital was the petitioner and that he was the attorney for the petitioner but there was no social worker by that name and no one from the hospital authorized respondent to file the petition and respondent a

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2017-11-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1693

    Respondent filed a verified statement of resignation and was disbarred on consent after he pled guilty to one count of travel and use of interstate facilities to promote and facilitate bribery and admitted to accepting bribes in violation of the Hobbs Act and honest services wire fraud, scheming to defraud the nursing home where his mother resided, scheming to defraud a political action committee (wire fraud) and the city of Philadelphia and the HIDTA program (wire fraud and mail fraud).

  • In the Matter of Doherty

    Publication Date: 2017-11-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1689

    Respondents petition for reinstatement was granted after the court accepted his resignation and disbarred him on consent based on his criminal conviction for mail fraud, bankruptcy fraud and money laundering arising from a program of real property sales and lease-back transactions intended to assist homeowners facing foreclosure because he fully acknowledged his wrongdoing, demonstrated genuine re-morse and sorrow, underwent significant rehabilitation during his disbarment, set aside funds for restitution, worked as a paralegal and e

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. McKee

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Aerospace | Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 171671

    Respondent was suspended for two years for professional misconduct in ten separate matters.

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  • Smith v. Bd. of Probation and Parole

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 171672

    Commonwealth court panel erred in reversing the parole boards denial of credit to appellee on his state sentence for time he spent on detainer because board properly denied credit under Gaito v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole, 412 A.2d 568. Reversed.

  • Nextel Communications of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Dept of Revenue

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Aerospace | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 17-1670

    Commonwealth Court correctly found that the net loss carryover provision violated the uniformity clause of the Pennsylvania constitution but erred in its remedy of striking all caps in the NLC because that remedy contravened the legislatures intent and the proper remedy was to sever the $3 million flat deduction. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

  • In the Interest of D.C.D.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 17-1663

    Juvenile court properly exercised discretion ordering early termination of delinquency supervision. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Maconeghy

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Expert Witnesses
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Saylor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1661

    Trial court erred in permitting medical expert to opine as to victims sexual abuse based solely upon the victims accounts, where there was a lack of physical evidence of abuse. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Spotz

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 17-1662

    Newly-recognized constitutional right exception to PCRA timeliness requirement improperly invoked where new constitutional rule only applied to federal statute, whereas defendant was convicted under state statute. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.