• In re: K.A.B.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20041 of 2023, O.C.-A.

    Petitioner sought involuntary termination of parental rights of respondent natural parents in a dependency action. The court granted the petition, holding that involuntary termination of parental rights was warranted where petitioner offered evidence of, and the record demonstrated, mother's and father's lack of interest regarding their minor child, their noncompliance with permanency plans, their failure to attend drug screening, and their failure to attend dependency action hearings.

  • Angus v. Dillon

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Hall
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 01671

    Plaintiff appealed an adverse judgment in her personal injury suit, contending in pertinent part that the court erred in admitting evidence during trial that one of her causation experts had had his license to prescribe controlled substances suspended. The trial court conceded error on the issue but maintained the Superior Court should affirm where the error did not result in prejudice to plaintiff's case at trial.

  • Galizia v. Galizia

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 104 OF 2020, D.R.

    Defendant found in contempt for failure to pay court-ordered support payments and court ordered probation, payment of a fine and a purge payment.

  • Troutman v. Troutman

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10101 OF 2021, C.A.

    The trial court issued its ruling on May 9, 2024, following a hearing on the parties' exceptions to the master's recommendation of Dec. 12, 2022, on the equitable distribution and economic claims in the parties' divorce. The court found a 2020 tax refund to be marital property. IRS-issued stimulus checks received by defendant based on a formula determined by Congress after the separation were not marital property. The court found that a check from Verizon for damage done to the marital residence during the marriage was marital proper

  • Jackson v. Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Erdos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 220502296

    In this § 1925(a) opinion, the trial court urged the appellate court to affirm the judgment following a jury trial that resulted in a verdict in favor of appellee Shante Jackson in the amount of $3 million. The trial court also justified its denial of appellant's post-trial motion.

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  • Beine v. Wilkinson Enter., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
    Judge: Judge Sommer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2017-04685-CT

    In a § 1925(a) opinion, the trial court urged the affirmance of three orders granting judgment on the pleadings to defendants because the 12-year statute of repose that applies to construction projects, 42 Pa. C.S. § 5536, barred plaintiff homeowners' claims against defendants.

  • Herman v. Robleto

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10095 of 2022, C.A.

    The court overruled defendant's preliminary objections to the fourth amended complaint in this case involving an allegation by one attorney against another attorney of cyberstalking and threatened violence by email, and ordered the defendant to file an answer.

  • SC3 Prop. LLC v. Roscoe

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
    Judge: Judge Saltz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-05136

    Plaintiff and defendant filed cross-motions for summary judgment in plaintiff's action alleging equitable subrogation and related claims regarding the purchase and sale of a residence encumbered by a mortgage. The court granted summary judgment in favor of defendant where plaintiff bought the property subject to defendant's prior mortgage and thus assumed primary responsibility for the mortgage to the extent of plaintiff's interest in the property.

  • Rotella v. Cmty. Med. Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022 CV 3943

    Medical malpractice plaintiffs filed a motion in limine to exclude the testimony of certain defense expert witnesses. The court granted the motion in part and denied it in part, holding that defendants' corporate liability expert witness would be prohibited from testifying that hospitals were inundated with COVID patients at the time a plaintiff was admitted where the pandemic was unrelated to the care involved in plaintiffs' case.

  • Watson v. Keenan

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Padova
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 03146

    The court justified its decision denying appellant's motions for post-trial relief in this case where appellant sued three police officers for assault and battery, false imprisonment/false arrest, malicious prosecution and abuse of process.