• Highlands Sch. Dist. v. Rittmeyer

    Publication Date: 2020-12-14
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Education | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1349

    Names of employee subject to discipline were protected from disclosure by the Right-to-Know Law, and neither the School Code nor Sunshine Act required public release of such information. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Hughes v. UGI Storage Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1274

    Although natural gas company was empowered by state law with eminent domain authority, it could not exercise that power in the absence of a certificate of public convenience issued by federal or state regulators, and thus without authority to exercise eminent domain landowners could not prove company had effected de facto taking. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Harrisburg Area Cmty. Coll. v. Pennsylvania Human Relations Comm'n

    Publication Date: 2020-11-16
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1246

    Neither Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission nor Pennsylvania Fair Educational Opportunities Act required educational institutions to accommodate students' lawful use of prescribed medical marijuana pursuant to the Medical Marijuana Act, where the legislature had not amended PHRA or PFEOA to remove applicability of the federal prohibition on marijuana. Order of the PHRC reversed, case remanded.

  • Rivera v. Silbaugh

    Publication Date: 2020-10-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1079

    Trial court properly found that pro se inmate's action alleging his constitutional rights were violated by DOC's confiscation of duplicates of religious material inmate had received in the mail was frivolous because inmate failed to plead sufficient facts to state a claim for violation of his first and fourteenth amendment rights. Affirmed.

  • Zimmerman v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

    Publication Date: 2020-08-17
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-0890

    Board erred in finding claimant ineligible for unemployment benefits because it failed to make credibility determinations and factual findings with respect to whether claimant had refused work and committed an "extreme offense" under employer's progressive disciplinary policy. Vacated and remanded.

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  • Commonwealth v. Clementi

    Publication Date: 2020-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-0767

    Trial court erred in concluding it lacked jurisdiction to entertain a motion for reconsideration on a summary appeal or a motion for reconsideration nunc pro tunc where the trial court scheduled hearing on the original motion outside the 30-day period for the trial court's ability to modify its order. Orders of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Begovic v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review

    Publication Date: 2020-07-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-0697

    The Unemployment Compensation Board of Review erred in reversing a finding of claimant's financial eligibility for unemployment compensation as the evidence regarding plaintiff's stints as a canvasser and interpreter was insufficient to demonstrate her purported independent contractor status under the Unemployment Compensation Law. The commonwealth court reversed.

  • In the Matter of: Condemnation by the Franklin Twp. Sewage Auth.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-22
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-0639

    Where sewer authority made good faith efforts to prevent overflow of sewage onto landowner's property, authority could not be said to have engaged in a purposeful and deliberate sewage plan under which overflows would constitute a de facto taking. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • J. Buchannan Assoc., LLC v. Univ. Area Joint Auth.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-01
    Practice Area: Public Utilities
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-0544

    The trial court did not err in holding that a joint municipal sewer authority could charge sewer tapping fees on the basis of assigning residential equivalent dwelling units and in finding that the sewer authority charged plaintiff a tapping fee in a manner consistent with the Municipality Authorities Act. The commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Brodhead Creek Assoc. LLC v. County of Monroe, Tax Claim Bureau

    Publication Date: 2020-05-25
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-0522

    Landowner could not rely upon a bureau clerk's allegedly mistaken advice to set aside a judicial tax sale of his property where he admitted having actual notice that the property would be sold on a date certain based on delinquent taxes. The commonwealth court affirmed.