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  • In re: Estate of Small

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0820

    Forfeiture of parent's share under dependent child statute denied where the alleged failure to support occurred during the decedent's adulthood, and where the decedent's physical disability set in during his adulthood as well. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Hamlett

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0809

    The high court refused to bar Pennsylvania appellate courts from exercising their discretion to apply the harmless-error doctrine when deemed warranted in criminal cases where advocacy from the commonwealth on the issue is lacking. The high court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Gass v. 52nd Judicial Dist.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-29
    Practice Area: Legislation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0678

    Local judicial district policy prohibiting medical marijuana use by probationers holding valid medical marijuana cards violated the Medical Marijuana Act's immunity from punishment or revocation of privileges. Petition for declaratory and injunctive relief granted.

  • Gass v. 52nd Judicial Dist.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-29
    Practice Area: Legislation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0678

    Local judicial district policy prohibiting medical marijuana use by probationers holding valid medical marijuana cards violated the Medical Marijuana Act's immunity from punishment or revocation of privileges. Petition for declaratory and injunctive relief granted.

  • Commonwealth v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2020-06-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0550

    Defendant was entitled to double jeopardy protections where prosecution's egregious lack of preparation for capital case constituted reckless disregard of a substantial risk of depriving defendant of a fair trial. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

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  • Commonwealth v. Copenhaver

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0452

    The high court considered the limited issue of whether defendant's operation of a motor vehicle with an expired registration sticker, standing alone, amounted to a breach of the peace and concluded that it did not. The high court vacated and remanded.

  • Rohland v. Wakefield

    Publication Date: 2020-04-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0369

    Commonwealth court properly found department could make Act 84 deductions for restitution from inmate's account even though his sentence for that offense had ended where he remained incarcerated on other charges. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Tighe

    Publication Date: 2020-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0225

    In an opinion announcing the judgment of the court, the high court held that the trial court did not violate defendant's constitutional right to self-representation when, during his criminal trial on charges of sexual assault against a minor, the court prohibited the pro se defendant from personally cross-examining the victim. The high court affirmed the superior court's decision.

  • Commonwealth v. Cost

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0102

    Officers' retention of a person's identification card to conduct a warrant check escalated a mere encounter into an investigatory detention, requiring suppression of evidence when the seizure was unsupported by reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. Order of the superior court reversed.

  • Briggs v. Sw. Energy Prod. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 20-0100

    The superior court erred in ruling that the "rule of capture," which protects a developer from trespass liability where there has been no physical invasion of another's property, did not apply as a matter of law to defendant's extraction of natural gas though hydraulic fracturing operations conducted on its own leased property. The high court reversed and remanded.