• PNC Bank, Nat'l Ass'n v. Carr

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Federal Government | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Allegheny County
    Judge: Judge Hertzberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: MG 15-000125

    In its § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified its order denying defendant David Carr's petition to set aside a sheriff's sale of real property in Pittsburgh after plaintiff PNC Bank, as successor by merger to National City Bank, filed a complaint in mortgage foreclosure.

  • Lasak v. Lasak

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Zulick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 6896 CV 2023

    The court dismissed the complaint upon defendants' demurrer to the cause of action for breach of a conditional gift, but gave plaintiffs leave to file a second amended complaint. This dismissal followed the dismissal of the first complaint filed by plaintiffs, parents to Lukasz Lasak, seeking the reformation of the deeds to two properties conveyed to the son in fee simple. The parents paid for the properties with the understanding that they would have a life estate in the properties and collect the rent during their lifetimes. The c

  • Feldman v. CP Acquisitions 25, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Beck
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 501 EDA 2023

    Defendant could not qualify as statutory employer where it was not engaged in the production of timber and there was insufficient evidence of a contract to allow it to qualify as a statutory employer entitled to Workers' Compensation Act immunity. Judgment of the trial court affirmed.

  • Hurley v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022 CV 2064

    Plaintiff filed suit for a declaratory judgment that he held a superior possessory interest over an individual defendant in certain property and that deed ownership in the property should be vested in him. The court held that plaintiff's claimed interest under a municipal delinquent tax sale was not superior to the individual defendant's interest where plaintiff had failed to pay outstanding municipal liens against the property. The court held further that plaintiff was entitled to a refund from defendant city in the amount that he pa

  • Domus BWW Funding, LLC v. Arch Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Wolson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2:23-cv-00094-JDW

    Contract exclusion did not bar coverage where claimed losses arose from insured's provision of asset management services, which were expressly excluded from the scope of the policy exclusion. Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted in part, defendant's motion for summary judgment granted in part.

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  • E. Liberty Dev., Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 358 C.D. 2023

    Trial court had to dispose of party's application for permission for interlocutory appeal to have "acted" on the application; failing to so meant the application was deemed denied, triggering the period for the party to petition for permission to appeal. Defendant's petition for permission to appeal quashed.

  • Whitaker v. Lu

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1698 MDA 2023

    The court quashed the attempted appeal by appellants from the judgment of possession entered by the trial court in favor of appellees because the judgment of possession was not a final and appealable order.

  • Caruso v. Caruso

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14 WAP 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order granting specific performance of a partnership agreement's buy-out provision. The court reversed, holding that the spouse of a deceased business partner who was not an original party to a partnership agreement, nor a third-party beneficiary of that agreement, and where the terms of the agreement did not permit assignment of a deceased partner's interest to a non-party could not be permitted to "step into the shoes" of the deceased partner and enforce the partnership agreement.

  • Villella v. Guerriere

    Publication Date: 2024-09-20
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1986 of 2021, G.D.

    Real estate agents and their real estate agency sought summary judgment in buyers' action alleging misrepresentations in the sale of real property. The court denied the summary judgment motion in part and granted it in part. The court held in pertinent part that plaintiffs stated claims for intentional misrepresentation and violation of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act where evidence created fact questions whether sellers' real estate agent knowingly misrepresented the ownership and legality of a gravel driveway

  • Hoss Land Co. v. Thorson

    Publication Date: 2024-09-20
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Beck
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1551 MDA 2023

    Court found trial court did not abuse its discretion in entering default judgment as a sanction for defendant's willful failure to comply with discovery obligations and withholding records necessary to determine the amount owed on the mortgage at issue. Order of the trial court affirmed.