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  • Patrick v. Velocity Rail Solutions, Inc. (Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.)

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
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    Case Number: 652 C.D. 2023

    Worker was properly denied disability benefits where medical record belied worker's claimed injuries. Order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board affirmed.

  • E. Liberty Dev., Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 358 C.D. 2023

    Trial court had to dispose of party's application for permission for interlocutory appeal to have "acted" on the application; failing to so meant the application was deemed denied, triggering the period for the party to petition for permission to appeal. Defendant's petition for permission to appeal quashed.

  • Rainey v. Pennsylvania Parole Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
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    Case Number: 1124 C.D. 2023

    Time that a parolee was not in custody or accessible to the parole board was excludable from the 120-day deadline for holding a revocation hearing. Adjudication of the parole board affirmed.

  • Weaver v. Schuylkill County Tax Claim Bureau

    Publication Date: 2024-09-27
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Dumas
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    Case Number: 1375 C.D. 2022

    The court affirmed the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County denying and dismissing appellant's objections and petition to vacate the Tax Claim Bureau's private sale of appellant's property.

  • City of Philadelphia v. Leverett

    Publication Date: 2024-09-20
    Practice Area: Tax
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Dumas
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    Case Number: 1457 C.D. 2022

    Appellant failed to demonstrate standing to seek distribution of excess tax sale proceeds where appellant never held an ownership interest in the property and the evidence was insufficient to demonstrate that she was the sole heir of the owner's estate. Order of the trial court affirmed, cross-application to quash denied.

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  • Bailey v. Pennsylvania Parole Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
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    Case Number: 871 C.D. 2023

    Petitioner sought review of respondent Pennsylvania Parole Board's order affirming its earlier determination recommitting him as a convicted parole violator. The court affirmed, holding that petitioner forfeited his 569 days of parole street time credit when he was recommitted as a convicted parole violator for subsequent violent crimes.

  • Page v. Rogers

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Legal Services | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
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    Case Number: 164 M.D. 2023

    Court dismissed inmate's petition against DOC secretary for failing to allege her personal involvement in purported constitutional violations or adequately allege how prison officials had violated his First and Eighth Amendment rights due to prison conditions/regulations. Respondents' preliminary objections sustained.

  • Goodwill Indus. of N. Cent. PA, Inc. v. Centre County Bd. of Assessment Appeals

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Non-Profit
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
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    Case Number: 44 C.D. 2023

    County Board of Assessment Appeals appealed the trial court's order reversing Board's decision denying taxpayer a charitable real estate tax exemption for certain property. The court affirmed, holding that taxpayer's evidence proved its compliance with the Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act and related law and, thus, its entitlement to the requested charitable real estate tax exemption.

  • In re: Nomination Papers of Claudia De la Cruz

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
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    Case Number: 379 M.D. 2024

    Objectors petitioned to set aside nomination papers of the Socialism and Liberation candidates for President and Vice President of the United States in the November 2024 general election. The court granted the petition, holding that Socialism and Liberation's nomination papers and slate of candidates had to be struck where seven of the body's presidential electors were registered Democrats and thus were disqualified under the Pennsylvania Election Code's disaffiliation provision.

  • S.E.N. v. Dep't of Educ. (Prof'l Standards & Practices Comm'n)

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
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    Case Number: 651 C.D. 2023

    No error in suspending license of a teacher who knowingly allowed a paramour who had been designated a sexually violent predator into her home with her minor daughter, which led to her charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Order of the Professional Standards and Practices Commission affirmed.