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  • United States v. Hughes

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Bibas
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    Case Number: 22-1756

    Appellant's convictions of two Hobbs Act robberies and two gun charges pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) were affirmed despite a finding that the district court erred in giving a jury instruction that an attempted Hobbs Act robbery was a crime of violence.

  • Wraith v. Wayfair, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-12
    Practice Area: Labor Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Hardiman
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    Case Number: 23-2400

    Gilbert Wraith, a former warehouse associate with defendant Wayfair, Inc., appealed the summary judgment entered in favor of Wayfair.

  • United States v. Puccio

    Publication Date: 2024-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Jordan
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    Case Number: 23-2260

    Matthew Puccio, a sales representative for Rep Network, appealed his conviction for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, arguing that the district court erred in instructing the jury on willful blindness and in applying a managerial role enhancement under Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1.

  • McAvoy v. Dickinson Coll.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Chagares
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    Case Number: 23-2939

    College's in-depth investigation of sexual assault claim supported the reasonableness of going three times over the standard investigation period, demonstrating that college did not act with deliberate indifference in violation of Title IX. Judgment of the district court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Zieglar

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 515 WDA 2023

    Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order denying its request to impanel a death-qualified jury. The court reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court acted outside its legal authority in usurping Commonwealth's ability to seek the death penalty by prohibiting the parties from proffering voir dire questions necessary to death-qualify a jury, and by ruling that there would be no jury deliberations regarding sentencing in a defendant's criminal homicide trial.

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  • George v. Delaware County Tax Claim Bureau

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
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    Case Number: 221 C.D. 2023

    Trial court erred in finding tax claim bureau took reasonable efforts to locate property owner by relying on bureau's statutory publication requirement and where the bureau failed to follow all statutorily listed methods and instead focused on the property owner's failure to update her registered address. Order of the trial court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. McMillan

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Cox
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    Case Number: 903 OF 2020

    Defendant sought post-trial relief after his conviction on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. The court denied defendant's motion, holding in pertinent part that Commonwealth was properly allowed to amend its information to add the charge of criminal conspiracy on the eve of trial where defendant was afforded the opportunity to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus as a means of challenging the evidence in support of the newly-filed charge.

  • Oberholzer v. Galapo

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 104 MAP 2022

    Lower courts erred in enjoining property owner from posting signs protesting neighbor's allegedly racist behavior where posting the signs constituted pure speech as it was motivated in part by highlighting the community effects of racism, and thus an injunction constituted an impermissible prior restraint on speech. Order of the superior court vacated in part.

  • Commonwealth v. 2016 Black Jeep Rubicon

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
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    Case Number: 1498 C.D. 2022

    Trial court erred in granting civil forfeiture of defendant's vehicle where Commonwealth presented no evidence that defendant regularly used the vehicle as part of his drug transactions to support finding that the vehicle was an instrumentality of defendant's criminal activity. Order of the trial court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1734 EDA 2022

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence on his jury conviction of rape and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding in pertinent part that the trial court did not violate appellant's rights by posing three brief questions to his crime victim at trial in order to clarify her responses to a question posed by Commonwealth.