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Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Dispute Resolution | Insurance Litigation
Industry: Insurance | Transportation
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Mundy
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Case Number: 17-1790
Statute of limitations only began to run once UM claim accrued when insurer breached insurance contract by denying arbitration or declining coverage. Order of the superior court reversed.
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Judges
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Saylor
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Case Number: 17-1829
Court of Judicial Disciplines sanction of permanent removal from judicial office lawful where based on judges repeated and willful participation in communications in which she intended to imply that she was making favorable rulings in exchange for political favors. Order of the Court of Judicial Discipline affirmed.
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Tax
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Dougherty
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Case Number: 17-1833
Commonwealth court erred in reversing the board of finances finding that appellees petition for a tax refund was not timely because the actual payment of the tax was the act of transferring money or credits by the taxpayer to the department, not the filing of the annual tax report. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 17-1835
Respondent was suspended for a year and a day for failing to cooperate with his prior firm partner in dissolving the firm and in abandoning the firm, for his inability to account for $10,000 of client funds owed to clients in his cases in the firms IOLTA account and neglect of client matters by failure to respond to preliminary objections in one case and by failing to respond to motions before the bankruptcy court in another case, by failing to obtain admission to practice before the bankruptcy court or secure local counsel, failing
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Public Records
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Saylor
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Case Number: 17-1791
The public disclosure of judicial records sought by the appellant news agency did not moot appellants request for access to the judicial records from the official source in the absence of any assessment of the reliability, verifiability or completeness of the disclosed versions. The high court reversed and remanded.
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Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Class Actions | Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Dougherty
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Case Number: 17-1824
The intermediate court erred in finding that the legislature intended §6111(i) of the Uniform Firearms Act to override high public official immunity and permit targeted liability against a local government agency for breach of the confidentiality provision in that act. The court affirmed an intermediate court order affirming defendants judgment of sentence.
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Saylor
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Case Number: 17-1822
In this case of first impression, the high court held that parole agents have authority to conduct a protective Terry frisk of non-parolees within the course of executing their statutorily imposed duties so long as their conduct is supported by reasonable suspicion. The court affirmed an intermediate court order affirming defendants judgment of sentence.
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Election and Political Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Wecht
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Case Number: 17-1838
Commonwealth Court erred in denying summary relief to senators in their challenge to the governors veto of bills returned after the general assembly adjourned because Art. IV, §15 of the Pennsylvania Constitution required the bills to be returned to the house, not an agent, and the governors press release lacked the formal requirements to constitute a proclamation under §15; thus, the governors purported vetoes of the general appropriations act of 2014 and the 2014 fiscal code amendments were constitutionally deficient. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Judges
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Judge Saylor
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Case Number: 17-1828
Removal sanction affirmed where court was limited to reviewing lawfulness of discipline, and where CJD had wide discretion to fashion discipline tailored to individual facts of case. Order of the Court of Judicial Discipline affirmed.
Publication Date: 2017-12-19
Practice Area: Public Records
Industry: Legal Services | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Wecht
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Case Number: 17-1832
Commonwealth court correctly held that the district attorney and her office were not judicial agencies under the RTKL because DAs were system and related personnel but not personnel of the unified judicial system and had to be related staff which were expressly not personnel of the system. Affirmed.
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