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  • CM Goat, LLC v. Valdez

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McLaughlin
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    Case Number: 3176 EDA 2022

    Defendant appealed the order for specific performance in action over a real estate sales agreement and court held trial court properly found that a written contract existed and defendant breached it, there was no violation of the statute of frauds and defendant waived his right to arbitration. Affirmed.

  • Childs v. Grayhawke Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Powell
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    Case Number: 02364

    The court in a § 1925(a) opinion, asked the Superior Court to affirm the jury's verdict in a wrongful death home health care case awarding plaintiff $42,500 and to affirm the denial of post-trial relief.

  • Reading Anthracite Co. v. Oxenrider

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Insurance | Mining and Resources
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
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    Case Number: 120 C.D. 2023

    Petitioners sought review of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board's order affirming a workers' compensation judge's decision that denied a petition for review of a compensation benefits award. The court affirmed, holding that the workers' compensation judge did not err by considering circumstances, including the timeliness and the manner in which an insurer handled a claim, when denying a corrective amendment to a Notice of Compensation Payable where the issue was the identity of the claimant's employer.

  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1019 WDA 2023

    Presence of drugs and paraphernalia in bedroom shared by defendant was sufficient evidence to infer constructive possession. Order of the trial court affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Greer

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McCaffery
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    Case Number: 87 MAP 2023

    Superior court erred in requiring Post Conviction Relief Act counsel to submit a merits brief after learning of defendant's intention to assert ineffective assistance claims against PCRA counsel, and should have instead remanded the case to the PCRA court. Order of the superior court reversed and remanded.

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  • Dalin Funding, LP v. Biz As Usual, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Patrick
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    Case Number: 446 EDA 2024

    Defendant appealed the court's order granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in its action for recovery of delinquent mortgage loans. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where defendant acknowledged the validity of the mortgage loans and, due to a lack of discovery responses, was deemed to have admitted his liability on the defaulted loans, to which he offered no logical or plausible defense.

  • Vivian v. Blank, Rome, LLP

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 1406 EDA 2023

    The court affirmed the trial court's order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment and dismissing plaintiff's claims of defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and abuse of process.

  • King-Hagen v. Ingram

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    Case Number: 007764-CV-2023

    Plaintiff seller sued defendant buyer for ejectment from real property after a failed residential home sale. Following a non-jury trial, the court found in favor of plaintiff where defendant moved into the residence without permission despite expiration of the parties' "offer to purchase real estate" without a closing on the property.

  • Hoenig v. Nasco Healthcare, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Dodge
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    Case Number: 2:21-342

    Defendant moved for reconsideration of trial court's partial summary judgment dismissal of plaintiff's employment action and court found the dismissal of a similar action brought by another employee against the same defendant employer was not grounds for reconsideration, was not "new legal authority" and did not support collateral estoppel. Motion denied.

  • Seguro Medico, LLC v. Pennsylvania Ins. Dep't

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 805 C.D. 2023

    Petitioners sought review of a letter in which respondent Pennsylvania Insurance Department's declined to vacate consent orders entered into by petitioners. The court quashed the appellate petition for review because respondent's letter was not an appealable adjudication.