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  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 1185 WDA 2021

    Rules of criminal procedure required dismissal of vehicle code infraction case due to citing officer's failure to appear for trial de novo, even though defendant also failed to appear. Judgment of conviction and sentence vacated, case dismissed.

  • Commonwealth v. Coniker

    Publication Date: 2023-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 23 WDA 2022

    Harassment conviction sustained where there was sufficient evidence to find that defendant had communicated threats of violence with weapons that caused the lockdown of a court office and also caused law firm office staff to flee their office. Judgment of sentence affirmed in part, vacated and reversed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Lear

    Publication Date: 2023-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 700 EDA 2022

    Trial court erred in denying Rule 600 motion to dismiss based on judicial emergency orders, where several of the orders expressly declared a court postponement, requiring the trial court to determine whether the commonwealth exercised diligence in bringing defendant to trial. Denial of motion to suppress affirmed, case remanded for new Rule 600 hearing.

  • Smith v. O'Brien

    Publication Date: 2023-02-06
    Practice Area: Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 837 EDA 2022

    Defendant appealed a discovery order directing her to disclose a conversation with her deceased husband and court found the discovery order did not satisfy the second and third prongs of the collateral-order doctrine because no harm or discord could befall a marriage that no longer existed. Appeal quashed.

  • Page Publ'g, Inc. v. Hemmerich

    Publication Date: 2023-01-16
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 289 WDA 2022

    Trial court properly ruled sua sponte that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction because there was no dispute between the parties in publisher's declaratory judgment action against author asserting an arbitration clause required author to pursue any potential breach of contract claims before an arbitrator. Affirmed.

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  • Wilson v. Smyers

    Publication Date: 2022-10-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 128 WDA 2022

    Trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting grandmother unsupervised partial custody of her grandchild and thoroughly considered the amount of personal contact between grandmother and grandchild prior to modification action and reserved to mother the right to determine how best to tell child the truth about his parentage. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Moser

    Publication Date: 2022-10-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 426 MDA 2022

    Files from cell phone's "notes" application fell within scope of search warrant seeking messages related to the nature of the relationship between defendant and the victim, where warrant could be interpreted as not limiting the scope to sent messages but instead including draft messages that could be contained in a note. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Gustafson v. Springfield, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-05
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Retail
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 22-0994

    Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was unconstitutional because it regulated state tort litigation which had too attenuated a link to interstate commerce and infringed upon the states' police powers under the Tenth Amendment. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Funk v. Empfield

    Publication Date: 2022-09-05
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 22-0999

    Order denying exceptions to master's report in partition action was not appealable where trial court had yet to finally resolve the partition. Appeal quashed.

  • Long v. Long

    Publication Date: 2022-08-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 22-0911

    Although a child support amount arising from a marital settlement agreement that converted to alimony did not constitute equitable alimony, spouse's remarriage did not preclude them from receiving alimony where the agreement did not expressly state that alimony could terminate upon remarriage. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.