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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.