• Mowery v. Mowery

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Adams County
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 2021-SU-0952

    Husband petitioned to challenge the validity of a prenuptial agreement during divorce proceedings. The court found the agreement to be valid and binding and therefore denied husband's petition.

  • Anderson v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2022-10-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Adams County
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-S-871

    The court refused to grant wife's petition to open a divorce decree where her petition was not timely filed and her attorney's mistake in failing to file economic claims on wife's behalf did not amount to extrinsic fraud so as to warrant relief under 23 Pa.C.S. §3332. The court denied wife's petition.

  • Caldwell v. Caldwell

    Publication Date: 2022-10-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Adams County
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 2018-S-253

    Court denied request to modify a hearing officer's report and recommendation which was incorporated into the final divorce decree, holding that the Pennsylvania Divorce Code makes no provision for a modification of a final decree of equitable distribution, and in fact, it is settled law that such degrees are non-modifiable.

  • Scarnati v. Dep't of Envtl. Prot.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-25
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 19-1384

    Legislators lacked standing beyond a general interest in compliance with the law where their complaint failed to allege that their ability to participate in voting was negatively impacted or that they were deprived of their official powers as legislators. Respondents' preliminary objections sustained, petition dismissed.

  • Protect PT v. Penn Twp. Zoning Hearing Bd.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-25
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Energy | Mining and Resources | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 19-1385

    Zoning ordinance allowing unconventional natural gas development in districts permitting low-density residential development permissible where UNDG allowable in any zoning district because it was not incompatible with residential or agricultural uses. Order of the trial court affirmed.

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  • Dantzler v. Wetzel

    Publication Date: 2019-09-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 19-1142

    Court lacked jurisdiction over inmate's petition where court could not review prison's misconduct determination and where inmate had failed to identify a legally cognizable personal or property interest entitling him to due process. Preliminary objections sustained.

  • A.G. v. Commonwealth Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2019-09-30
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 19-1137

    Licensee was properly subject to two six-month suspensions of her driver's license where her single act of careless driving which killed more than one person constituted more than one offense to which a conviction and resulting suspension attached. The appellate court affirmed the suspensions imposed.

  • Plummer v. Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation & Parole

    Publication Date: 2019-09-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 19-1033

    Board properly denied petitioner credit for time served when recommitting him as a convicted parole violator because board's explanation that it denied street time due to petitioner's "prior history of supervision failures" was sufficient, petitioner had notice and there was record evidence to support the board's reason. Affirmed.

  • Ayoub v. Ayoub

    Publication Date: 2019-08-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Adams County
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0921

    The court lacked personal jurisdiction over wife with respect to the equitable division of property in this divorce case, because the parties' last marital domicile was in another state and wife had only limited contact with Pennsylvania.

  • In re Appeal of Provco Pinegood Sumneytown, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-08-12
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 19-0954

    Trial court properly affirmed commissioners' denial of developer's land development application because, even though the issue of a special exception upon which the trial court had relied was still pending, commissioners properly applied PennDOT regulations governing safe stopping sight distances for access driveways and found application failed to provide safe egress onto a turnpike. Affirmed.