• Transource Pennsylvania, LLC v. Pub. Util. Comm'n

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Public Utilities
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0634

    Commission properly denied petitioner's siting application for high-voltage transmission lines and rescinded its provisional certificate of public convenience for an electrical transmission project and court found commission decision was in accordance with Pennsylvania law and §§1501 and 2805(a) of the code, commission could evaluate the need for the project independently of the need for the Independence Energy Connection project that had been performed by a LLC and commission's decision was supported by substantial, credible evidence

  • Trinidad v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-18
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0422

    Trial court erred in dismissing Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's motion for possession because the order was an appealable, collateral order, DOT established its right of possession by paying the condemnees the estimated just compensation and the federal residential eviction halt was inapplicable to commercial property. Reversed.

  • Speedwell Constr., Inc. v. Klinger

    Publication Date: 2022-04-11
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0389

    Board did not err in affirming workers' compensation judge's conclusion that employer's contest of claimants' claim was unreasonable because employer lacked any medical evidence to support its denial of liability when it issued the denial and the award of unreasonable contest attorney fees was proper. Affirmed.

  • Stout v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

    Publication Date: 2022-04-04
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0361

    Board erred in denying unemployment benefits based on claimant's alleged conscious intent to quit and court found claimant made necessary and reasonable efforts to preserve his employment by remaining in contact with employer, attempting to obtain Family and Medical Leave Act paperwork in multiple formats and complete it and conditions outside claimant's control caused many of the difficulties in getting the FMLA paperwork to his physician. Reversed.

  • Gallagher v. Abstract Overhead Door Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0254

    Review petition to allege additional injuries properly denied where Workers' Compensation Judge did not credit claimant's testimony but credited medical testimony opining that any aggravation of claimant's injury had resolved. Order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board affirmed.

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  • Sherwood v. Dep't of Corr.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1475

    Petitioner moved for summary relief in his challenge to the deduction of fees and costs from his inmate account after he received a $15,000 settlement payment and court found all the deductions were proper except for one $500 restitution order which required remand. Motion denied.

  • Campbell v. Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2021-12-20
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Education | Non-Profit | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1464

    Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association was a public entity subject to the Right-to-Know Law where its board included public education officials and the association received its funding through membership dues paid by taxpayer-funded public schools and school districts. Order of the Office of Open Records affirmed as modified.

  • Dep't of Corr. SCI Chester v. Faison

    Publication Date: 2021-11-29
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1389

    WCJ's finding that employee had been subjected to non-consensual sex at work merely constituted finding of abnormal working conditions for workers' compensation claim and did not constitute legal finding of criminal conduct in violation of the purported offender's due process rights. Order of the WCAB affirmed.

  • PublicSource v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Health

    Publication Date: 2021-11-22
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1360

    Requesters appealed Office of Open Records' upholding department of health's denial of part of requester's Right-to-Know Law request and court found the 2019 and 2020 information requesters sought was still in its raw form and not yet available for public access and the Vital Statistics Law's confidentiality provisions strictly prohibited department from disclosing raw data to requesters. Affirmed.

  • Kuharchik Constr., Inc. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2021-11-01
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1269

    Court correctly determined that materials used to support a traffic signal device constituted "building machinery and equipment" exempt from use tax based on commonly accepted methods of statutory construction to define the terms "traffic signal" and "signal." Commonwealth's exceptions overruled.