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Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Murphy
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Case Number: 24-1599
The court dismissed plaintiff homeowners' complaint for breach of contract against an insurance company that partially denied their claim under the national Standard Flood Insurance Policy program due to failure to file the case within the one-year statute of limitations period.
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 523 MDA 2024
Trial court had sufficient evidence to support granting custodial parent's petition for minor child's name change where record evidence demonstrated non-custodial parent had extremely limited relationship with child, the child was now going by the custodial parent's surname, and non-custodial parent's name had acquired a negative stigma due to their criminal activity. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Real Estate
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
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Case Number: 10985 of 2021, C.A.
Plaintiffs sought a permanent injunction after filing a complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The court granted an injunction, ordering that defendants had no property interest in a strip of property owned by plaintiffs, and that defendants' easement by necessity or implication was extinguished by virtue of plaintiffs' adverse possession based upon plaintiffs' construction of a sewer line across the property.
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 24-2502
Appellant appealed orders denying his motions for post-judgment relief in a civil action concerning foreclosure and bankruptcy proceedings related to his mother's property.
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Tax
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wolf
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Case Number: 827 C.D. 2022
Appellant property owner appealed the trial court's order sustaining preliminary objections and dismissing its complaint to reverse real estate tax assessment increases and void prior tax bills. The court reversed, holding that the trial court erred in concluding that a local assessor's office could make retroactive increases to appellant's property tax assessment where the assessor's office had not properly followed Assessment Law procedures. In particular, the assessor erred by issuing supplemental tax bills to appellant for prior y
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Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 2969 EDA 2023
Disciplinary counsel was entitled to high public official immunity due to the nature of their work, and any alleged misconduct that occurred in the course of prosecuting disciplinary infractions could not waive that immunity. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Allegheny County
Judge: Judge Hertzberg
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Case Number: 1294 CD 2024
Respondent labor union appealed the court's order granting petitioner City's statutory appeal that sought to vacate the arbitration award in a police officer's disciplinary proceeding. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed, holding in pertinent part that it did not err in finding that the neutral arbitrator engaged in dishonest fact-finding by failing to find the existence of just cause for the officer's termination despite overwhelming evidence that the officer violated departmental policies and training when confront
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Construction | Insurance | Real Estate
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Sullivan
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Case Number: 754 EDA 2023
Insurer not required to reimburse for replacement costs caused by leaking water pipe in property wall corroded from wear and tear where policy specifically excluded wear and tear damage and the policy's tear out provision only provided reimbursement for the cost of opening property walls to accessed damaged components. Judgment of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Zulick
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Case Number: 4212 CV 2024
The court granted defendant homeowners association's demurrer as to all claims in this breach of fiduciary duty suit by a homeowner except the denial of access to the association's books and records.
Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 633 C.D. 2022
Zoning board erroneously granted use variance where applicant's evidence only demonstrated economic hardship common to other nearby parcels. Order of the trial court reversed.
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