• Villella v. Guerriere

    Publication Date: 2024-09-20
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1986 of 2021, G.D.

    Real estate agents and their real estate agency sought summary judgment in buyers' action alleging misrepresentations in the sale of real property. The court denied the summary judgment motion in part and granted it in part. The court held in pertinent part that plaintiffs stated claims for intentional misrepresentation and violation of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act where evidence created fact questions whether sellers' real estate agent knowingly misrepresented the ownership and legality of a gravel driveway

  • Commonwealth v. Payton

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Cordero
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 63 of 2024

    The court granted defendant's pre-trial motion for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissed all charges after a preliminary hearing.

  • Mt. Macrina Manor v. Stafford

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Cordero
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1546 of 2018, G.D.

    The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss for failure to join an indispensable party pursuant to Pa. R. Civ. P. 1032(b). Plaintiff, a skilled nursing facility that housed defendant's late father, sued defendant for breach of contract and violation of the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act after defendant signed a responsible person agreement, a Mt. Macrina Manor release and acknowledgment and, allegedly in contravention of the contract, received ownership of three parcels of real estate from his father in exchange for $1. Defendan

  • In re: Estate of Renninger

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Leskinen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 236 OC 2021

    Appellant appealed the court's order declaring that a will was a forgery and striking it from the record. The court offered an opinion in support of its order, declaring that clear, direct, precise, and convincing evidence demonstrated that a purported 2005 will was a forgery where it was created using an electronic form that first became available in 2016.

  • Hart J. Distrib., Inc. v. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Food and Beverage | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Leskinen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 243 of 2023, M.D.

    Appellant appealed the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's order refusing the renewal of its distributor license. The court overruled the Board's order and ordered the renewal of appellant's license.

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  • Commonwealth v. Wright

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Cordaro
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 870 of 2016

    Petitioner filed an amended PCRA petition that raised claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. The court granted the petition based on petitioner's interrelated allegations of failure to consult and/or investigate, failure to obtain medical expert testimony, and failure to challenge an autopsy weight measurement of petitioner's deceased child. The court reasoned that petitioner's counsel were ineffective where they had scant contact with him before and during trial and failed to contest a purportedly inaccurate measurement of the

  • Uhazie v. JSD Performance Autos, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive | Retail
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Leskinen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1053 of 2021, G D.

    Defendant moved for summary judgment on plaintiff's fraud and consumer protection complaint against the seller of a used car. The court denied defendant's motion.

  • PennTex Ventures, LLC v. City of Uniontown

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Leskinen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2165 of 2022, G.D.

    Plaintiff developers filed a priority motion for peremptory judgment in their action for recognition of the right to deemed development plan approval. The court denied the motion where defendant city's ordinances failed to conclusively vest exclusive jurisdiction over land development plans in city's planning commission, and where the record did not conclusively show whether city council's actions on the planning commission's recommendation triggered a new obligation for a written response to plaintiffs' land development application.

  • In re: Sale of Delinquent Prop.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Leskinen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2174 of 2022 G.D.

    Petitioners filed a petition for exceptions to disapprove, set aside, or void tax sale. The court granted the petition where a county's tax claim bureau failed to send a follow-on written notice of an impending tax sale to a spouse property owner after the bureau's initial notices to both spouses were returned under the signature of the other spouse.

  • Keefer v. Basinger

    Publication Date: 2023-09-18
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Cordaro
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 68 of2023 G.D.

    Defendant filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's negligence complaint, which sought damages after defendant stuck plaintiff, a pedestrian, with her vehicle. The court sustained two of defendant's three objections and dismissed the third as moot.