• Grit Drexel, LLC v. Crescent Abstract, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Patrick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 01466

    Appellant title company appealed the court's order granting default judgment in favor of appellee property owner. The court concluded that its decision should be affirmed where appellant failed to timely petition to open default judgment, failed to plead a meritorious defense, and failed to demonstrate any legitimate excuse for its failure to appear prior to entry of default judgment against it.

  • Commonwealth v. Ramirez-Contreras

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 720 MDA 2023

    Plea counsel was deficient where she failed to investigate defendant's immigration status and thus failed to advise him of the immigration consequences of his guilty plea, where defendant's priority was to return to work to support his family in the U.S. Order of the Post Conviction Relief Act court reversed, conviction vacated.

  • Hollingsworth v. Rabe Envt'l Sys., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Construction
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Baxter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-333 ERIE

    Plaintiff's hostile work environment and wrongful termination claims failed where they were based on his unfounded speculation and subjective belief regarding defendant's racial animus. Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted.

  • Brooks v. Trans Union LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Marston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-48-KSM

    The parties moved to file redacted copies of certain documents filed in support of the parties' positions on pending motions. The court granted all but one of the parties' proposed redactions, concluding that neither the presumption of public access to judicial filings nor the First Amendment precluded the redactions in light of the confidentiality concerns associated with publicly revealing non-party consumer financial information.

  • Melendez v. Mo

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Levin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 01939

    Defendants filed post-trial motions after a jury awarded medical malpractice damages in favor of plaintiff. The court denied the motions, holding in pertinent part that defendants' requests for judgment notwithstanding the verdict were waived for improper motion practice and briefing.

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  • In re: Appeal of Sheriff's Revocation of License to Carry Firearms

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Linhardt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: MD 59-2024

    The court granted appellant's appeal of the sheriff's revocation of her license to carry firearms finding that the sheriff failed to demonstrate that he had good cause to revoke appellant's license to carry firearms.

  • In re KR

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-6857

    County Children & Youth Services Agency petitioned for involuntary termination of parental rights of minor child's mother and father. The court granted the petition, concluding that termination of mother's and father's parental rights would best serve the child's needs and welfare where the conditions that led to the child's placement in dependency proceedings, namely neglect by drug-addicted parents, continued to exist and were not likely to be remedied within a reasonable period of time.

  • Previte v. Erie County Bd. of Elections

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 814 C.D. 2023

    Election Code expressly designated digital images of completed absentee/mail-in ballots as public records, subjecting them to disclosure - with appropriate redaction of identifying information - under the Right-to-Know Law. Order of the trial court reversed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Pearson

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1623 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order denying his "notice of appeal." The court affirmed, holding that the trial court properly denied appellant's pleading, which was an untimely subsequent Post Conviction Relief Act petition that sought reinstatement of appellant's rights to appeal nunc pro tunc an order of the trial court that denied appellant's motion for DNA testing.

  • In re AS

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-6858

    County Children & Youth Services Agency petitioned for involuntary termination of parental rights of minor child's mother and father. The court granted the petition, concluding that termination of mother's and father's parental rights would best serve the child's needs and welfare where the conditions that led to the child's placement in dependency proceedings, namely neglect by drug-addicted parents, continued to exist and were not likely to be remedied within a reasonable period of time.