• Hanbicki v. Leader

    Publication Date: 2023-05-22
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 835 EDA 2022

    Landlord's admitted withholding of evicted tenant's property was sufficient to impose contempt for violating trial court's order to turn over the property, but record did not support the judgment amount awarded by the trial court. Judgment of the trial court affirmed in part and vacated in part, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Keister

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 282 MDA 2022

    Evidence was sufficient to support conviction for endangering the welfare of a child where commonwealth presented evidence and testimony that defendant withheld food from child and made her sleep on the floor as punishment, which resulted in the child becoming visibly malnourished and displaying symptoms of PTSD and other mental health issues. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Loftus v. Decker

    Publication Date: 2023-02-20
    Practice Area: Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Transportation
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 611 WDA 2021

    Appellant workers' compensation carrier appealed the order denying its petition to intervene in action initiated by injured bus driver in a praecipe for writ of summons against other driver and court found the order was not an appealable collateral order because appellant had no legally enforceable interest and no right that needed to be protected. Appeal quashed.

  • Barrett v. M&B Med. Billing, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-05
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 1442 WDA 2021

    The trial court erred in allowing the individual defendant, an officer of the defendant corporation but not a licensed attorney, to appear pro se on behalf of both herself and the defendant corporation in these legal proceedings. The appellate court reversed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Conley

    Publication Date: 2022-12-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 935 WDA 2021

    Trial court could not anticipatorily revoke a consecutive sentence of probation following a violation of conditions of county intermediate punishment as no violations of the conditions of a term of probation could occur before a defendant began serving that term. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

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  • Delaware Vall. Landscape Stone, Inc., v. RRQ, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-10-31
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 2103 EDA 2021

    Non-attorney trustee could not lawfully represent trust during legal proceedings, and their filings had to be stricken although it did not require quashal of the appeal. Appellee's motion to quash appeal denied, appellant's brief stricken.

  • Oberholzer v. Galapo

    Publication Date: 2022-05-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 22-0475

    Appellants appealed the permanent injunction that dictated which way their multiple yard signs should face in their conflict with their backyard neighbors and court found trial court applied the incorrect legal standard. Vacated and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Stone

    Publication Date: 2022-05-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 22-0484

    Trial court erred in instructing jury that medical marijuana was not a Schedule I controlled substance or that a DUI conviction required proof that marijuana found in a driver's bloodstream came from non-medical marijuana, where the DUI statute continued to make marijuana intoxication per se illegal. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Bank of America, N.A. v. Scott

    Publication Date: 2022-03-22
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements | Real Estate
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Automotive
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0302

    Plaintiff correctly argued that when a reverse mortgage is due because of a mortgagor's death, the mortgagor's heirs are not necessarily entitled to notice of and the right to exercise the option to purchase the mortgaged property for 95 percent of its appraised value; however, defendants demonstrated that plaintiff failed to comply with relevant federal regulations governing reverse mortgages. The superior court affirmed.

  • Liberty Mut. Group, Inc. v. 700 Pharmacy LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-02-21
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance | Retail
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 22-0189

    Trial court erred in finding appellant insurers failed to join indispensable parties and in its application of the Workers' Compensation Act in insurers' action asserting pharmacies created an unlawful business structure in which doctors prescribed topical compound pain creams and received kickbacks, but properly found appellants failed to present evidence to support claims of fraud, unjust enrichment, aiding and abetting. Affirmed