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  • Farlow v. Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation & Parole

    Publication Date: 2019-08-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-0996

    Parole violator not entitled to credit for time served on parole board's warrant where credit was correctly allocated to parolee's sentence arising from new criminal charges. Order of the board of probation and parole affirmed.

  • Perrotta v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2019-08-26
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-1004

    Trial court did not err in granting licensee's appeal of the denial of his application for an ignition interlock and non-commercial learner's permit because department did not meet its burden to permanently deny licensee's operating privileges under § 1503(a)(8) but trial court erred in ordering department to grant the license because that exceeded its authority. Affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Sadler v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-10
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-0638

    Workers' compensation appeal board erred in denying claimant's petition asserting his AWW was miscalculated because it did not include his overtime and erred in granting employer's suspension petition because claimant was not "incarcerated after a conviction" when he was incarcerated before his conviction when he could not make bail. Reversed, vacated and remanded.

  • Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1279 v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Bd.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-20
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-0579

    The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board did not commit an error of law when it concluded that an employee's protected union activity was not proximate in time sufficient to infer anti-union animus as a motive for her termination. The appellate court affirmed a decision of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.

  • Walker v. Dept. of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-20
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-0568

    Trial court properly found that the order of suspension did not provide adequate notice and satisfy due process in department's action to suspend licensee's emission inspection license because the order did not provide a date or place for the alleged actions, did not include a citation to the specific statutory or regulatory provisions prohibiting the conduct in question and did not reference the 5000-mile exemption sticker issue raised at trial. Affirmed.

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  • Finnerty v. Pennsylvania Dept. of Cmty. & Econ. Dev.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-13
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Consulting | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-0555

    Public records withheld under the internal, predecisional deliberation exception to the RTKL where such records qualified as "internal records" because they were shared with private contractors engaged by a public agency to fulfill the agency's legislative purposes. Order of the Office of Open Records affirmed.

  • Mid-Atl. Sys. of WPA, Inc. v. The Tax Office of the Municipality of Monroeville

    Publication Date: 2019-03-18
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Tax
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-0293

    Municipal business privilege tax was not preempted by Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act where it merely preempted regulation of home improvement contractors and where HICPA's registration fee was not a true license fee, such that a municipality still could impose a tax on the general privilege of doing business within the municipality. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Kurpiewski v. Worker's Compensation Appeal Bd.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-05
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 19-0137

    Claimant and employer challenged the award of workers' compensation benefits and a penalty and the court found that claimant was entitled to ongoing benefits for his allergy to chromium that prevented his working as a bricklayer; he was not concurrently employed at the time of injury and the court remanded the award of a penalty for the employer's technical violation of the act by not issuing a NCP or NCD. Reversed in part, affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Middaugh v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2018-11-13
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 18-1359

    The court of common pleas correctly applied the test in Gingrich v. DOT, 134 A.3d 528, in case where licensee was informed of his license suspension more than two years after his conviction for DUI, and properly found the delay constituted an extraordinarily extended period of time and sustained licensee's appeal. Affirmed.

  • Dana Holding Corp. v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.

    Publication Date: 2018-10-23
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Labor Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 18-1256

    A workers' compensation judge properly determined that Protz II, wherein the high court declared §306(a.2) of the Worker's Compensation Act unconstitutional, applied in this case since claimant's change in disability status based upon an impairment rating evaluation was still being litigated at the time Protz II was decided. The commonwealth court affirmed.