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Publication Date: 2024-05-24
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Dumas
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Case Number: 546 M.D. 2022
Employee adequately pled whistleblower retaliation where she alleged that she reported employer's failure to maintain sanitary working conditions by reporting the presence of mold in the office. Respondent's preliminary objections sustained in part and overruled in part.
Publication Date: 2024-05-24
Practice Area: Education Law
Industry: Education
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 1203 C.D. 2021
Appellant appealed the order of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas holding that the school principal and superintendent of schools were high public officials entitled to absolute immunity from appellant's defamation claims.
Publication Date: 2024-05-24
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Education
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
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Case Number: 657 C.D. 2023
Appellants appealed the trial court's order granting appellee school district's motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissing their negligence complaint with prejudice. The court affirmed, holding that appellants' suit did not fall within the real property exception to governmental immunity where their claim stemmed from an injury caused by personalty rather than realty, namely a temporary kickball base not affixed to the ground that slid out from under a high school student during a physical education class.
Publication Date: 2024-05-24
Practice Area: Education Law
Industry: Education
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 765 C.D. 2023
Petitioner charter school sought review of respondent Department of Education's order requiring school district to pay petitioner tuition owed for students who attended petitioner in a previous school year. The court vacated respondent's order and remanded with instructions where respondent's decision lacked findings of fact and conclusions of law that would allow effective appellate review.
Publication Date: 2024-05-24
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Mining and Resources | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 500 C.D. 2020
Environmental Hearing Board had discretion to rescind quarrying permits rather than remand to address board's concerns where applicant failed to meet a statutory requirement for issuance of one of the permits. Order of the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2024-05-24
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 484 C.D. 2022
DOT's unreasonable delay in imposing a license suspension prejudiced licensee who refrained from driving upon the belief that his withdrawal of his appeal meant the suspension automatically went into effect and due to licensee's increasing need to transport his family and drive for work. Order of the trial court reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-05-17
Practice Area: Tax
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 135 C.D. 2020
Trial court erred in denying nunc pro tunc relief to appellants in their challenge to their 2019 property assessment because Board of Revision of Taxes was negligent in not mailing appellants notice of the reassessment and appellants filed an appeal with BRT as soon as they received their 2019 tax bill, which was the first time they received notice that their property had been reassessed. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-05-17
Practice Area: Transportation
Industry: Transportation
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 489 C.D. 2023
Petitioner sought review of respondent's decision requiring petitioner to remove three abandoned railroad bridges over township roads. The court affirmed, concluding that substantial evidence supported respondent's decision where the bridges presented hazards of falling concrete, offered no benefit to the public, and created roadway hazards due to their narrow design.
Publication Date: 2024-05-17
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Non-Profit
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 415 C.D. 2021
Appellant appealed the trial court's orders convicting him of two summary offenses under the Game and Wildlife Code. The court reversed in part, affirmed in part, and remanded to the trial court for resentencing. The court held that appellant's charge under Game Code section 2307(a) should have been dismissed where the citation failed to set out the specifics of the alleged violation. Appellant was properly convicted under section 2504(a), however, where he shot an elk within ten feet of a roadway.
Publication Date: 2024-05-17
Practice Area: Tax
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
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Case Number: 168 C.D. 2023
Tax bureau failed to comply with notice requirements of the Real Estate Tax Sale Law by not undertaking reasonable efforts to locate the property's owner after the upset sale notice was returned undelivered. Order of the trial court reversed.
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