• Ottinger v. Bucks County Tax Claim Bureau

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-03779

    In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified its ruling denying appellant's petition to set aside a tax sale of his property and granting a judgment of possession to Jessica Poltavskiy and urged the Commonwealth Court to affirm because appellant received adequate notice of the sale after two previous upset tax sales were the subject of notice by both posting and personal service.

  • In re: Adoption of Valliere

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-A9104

    Appellant appealed the court's order denying his petition to adopt an adult son. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where the parties demonstrated no good cause for proceeding with the adoption absent a relinquishment of parental rights by adoptee's father.

  • Credit Trust Under the Will of William R. Cameron

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2014-E0597

    Appellant brought an interlocutory appeal from the court's order decreeing the scope of a surcharge that it could impose against a self-dealing fiduciary and certain non-beneficiary third-parties. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where it properly determined that it had authority to impose a surcharge equal to the total financial benefit received by the fiduciary and/or his non-party family members who are not beneficiaries of the trust.

  • Robins v. Robins

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-03375

    Defendant appealed the court's decision in favor of plaintiff on plaintiff's claims of unjust enrichment and conversion. The court concluded that defendant's appeal should be denied and dismissed, and the court's decision affirmed, where evidence and the court's credibility determinations supported the conclusion that defendant converted plaintiff's inherited funds to his own use.

  • Jordan v. Lynde

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2021-02616

    Medical malpractice plaintiffs appealed the court's order granting summary judgment in favor of defendant medical providers. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where plaintiffs proffered no expert testimony to demonstrate defendants' deviation from acceptable medical standards, and where plaintiffs failed to demonstrate how the discovery rule tolled the statute of limitations on their otherwise untimely complaint.

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  • Amres Corp. v. Ayzenberg

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Accounting
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-01224 (Consolidated)

    Certain parties appealed the court's decision allowing a certified public accountant, who served as a court-appointed forensic accounting expert in the parties' litigation, to seek payment of his expert fees within the parties' litigation rather than filing a separate action. The court requested that its decision be affirmed where the parties had clearly agreed to split the cost of the appointed expert that the parties ultimately required to value the disputed multimillion dollar assets involved in the complex commercial case.

  • Amres Corp. v. Ayzenberg

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-01224 (Consolidated)

    Appellant appealed the court's order granting an award of sanctions in favor of appellees. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where the court imposed proportionate sanctions that were consistent with the size and import of the litigation in response to appellant's willful, intentional and purposeful violation of the court's consent order, which incorporated the parties' negotiated settlement of their dispute.

  • Blair v. Northampton Twp. Police Dep't

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Public Records
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-04244

    Petitioner appealed the court's order denying his petition for review of respondent's refusal to provide copies of specified police bodycam video. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where petitioner offered no verified factual basis to overcome respondent's verified, articulated reasons for withholding police bodycam video that was pertinent to an ongoing investigation.

  • ETD Group, L.L.C. v. Factor

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | Transportation
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-06673

    In a §1925(a) opinion, the court urged that defendant's appeal be dismissed and the court's decision denying a motion for post-trial relief and granting specific performance to plaintiff ETD Group on its third contract for the purchase of defendant's three lots of business property be affirmed.

  • In Re: Estate of Poleshuk

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2015-E0692

    Father, proceeding pro se, appealed the court's order removing him as guardian of the estate of his incapacitated adult son. The court concluded that it did not err in refusing to grant father additional continuances of its scheduled hearing on the matter, or in decreeing that father should be removed as his son's estate guardian.