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  • d'Happart v. First Commonwealth Bank

    Publication Date: 2022-08-22
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0937

    In ruling on defendant's preliminary objections to complaint alleging consumer protection violations related to auto loan, court could take judicial notice of filings in bankruptcy proceedings voluntarily initiated by plaintiffs even though plaintiffs did not raise their bankruptcy in the complaint. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2022-06-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0673

    Judgment of sentence reversed where trial court failed to place findings on the record with respect to motion to suppress inculpatory statements where there were material issues regarding the validity of Miranda warnings and what transpired during extended breaks during defendant's questioning. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Lehman

    Publication Date: 2022-05-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0597

    Trial court properly excluded admission of victim's rap music videos containing violent lyrics and imagery where defendant failed to allege that he had knowledge of the videos prior to the victim's homicide, or that the videos were autobiographical in nature and therefore reasonably demonstrated the victim's violent nature. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Constantakis v. Bryan Advisory Servs., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0576

    Preliminary injunction requiring filing of amended Financial Industry Regulatory Authority complaint was not unconstitutional where it was not a "prior restraint" and FINRA required amendment upon discovery of new "facts or circumstances." Order of the trial court affirmed in part, reversed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Hipps

    Publication Date: 2022-05-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0536

    Post Conviction Relief Act petition alleging ineffective assistance of initial PCRA counsel dismissed as patently untimely, where counsel's ineffectiveness did not constitute a newly-discovered fact that could grant an exception to the PCRA time bar. Order of the PCRA court reversed.

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  • Dobransky v. EQT Prod. Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-25
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0444

    Defendants were not statutory employers of a truck driver employed by a transportation company contracted by defendants, where the driver was not engaged in the business or services performed by defendants. Summary judgment vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Dinell

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0165

    Trial court erred in accepting guilty plea to invasion of privacy charges where defendant expressly denied taking photos of victims for the purposes of arousing or gratifying sexual desire. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Jones v. McGreevy

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0139

    Trial court erred in holding banking or brokerage accounts to be property held in tenancy by the entireties where the accounts were titled solely in one spouse's name and that spouse was the only person who accessed the account, while beneficiary interests in a trust or inherited IRA account funds were also subject to attachment. Judgment and order of the trial court vacated, cases remanded.

  • Evans v. Capital Blue Cross

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0136

    Establishment of terms and conditions for short-term disability benefits program created contractual expectation for employees that they could receive benefits so long as they met the requirements of the program, potentially exposing employer to contractual liability for denying benefits to a qualifying employee. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. James

    Publication Date: 2022-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0047

    Appellant appealed his conviction and sentence for simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and court found the garage involved in the incident qualified as an occupied structure. Affirmed.