• Vassilaros v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Dep't of Transp., Bureau of Driver Licensing

    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Motto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 70112 OF 2023, M.D.

    Petitioner appealed the suspension/recall of his driving privileges. The court sustained petitioner's appeal and struck the recall of his driver's license.

  • Shenango Twp. v. Kaul Inv. Co., LP

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10166 of 2023, C.A.

    The trial court granted plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent defendant from operating a short-term rental facility at the Colonial Flowline Building in New Castle in violation of the applicable authorized use restrictions in Zoning District I-1.

  • Maybrook-C Overlook Opco, LLC v. Cutsuries

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Motto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10257 OF 2023, C.A.

    Defendant son filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint seeking recovery of the unpaid balance for his deceased mother's skilled nursing care. The court sustained the preliminary objection that plaintiff's complaint lacked requisite specificity where it failed to aver whether its agreement for the mother's care was oral or written and, if written, no copy was provided with plaintiff's complaint. The court overruled defendant's preliminary objection that the complaint lacked specificity by failing to set forth special damag

  • Williams v. City of New Castle

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 70005 OF 2020,M.D.

    Appellants, the City of New Castle and its police pension review board, appealed the court's decision awarding survivor benefits to appellees, the ex-wives of two deceased police officers. In a §1925(a) opinion, the court justified its opinion and order granting appellees' petitions for review and asked the Commonwealth Court to deny appellants' appeal.

  • Fisher v. Barkey

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Motto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10310 OF 2022, C.A.

    The court's opinion justified its overruling defendants' preliminary objections to plaintiff's second amended complaint which claimed that the defendants committed fraud and fraud in the inducement when they had a verbal and email agreement for defendants to sell a property to plaintiff that was uninhabitable and plaintiff then invested effort and money into restoring the property while it was leased to them after which defendant Barkey refused to sell at the originally agreed price resulting in unjust enrichment and a claim for reimb

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    New Jersey Estate Litigation 2014

    Authors: Michael R. Griffinger, Paul F. Cullum III

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • Commonwealth v. McDowell

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Cox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 16 OF 2023

    The court issued an order denying defendant's pre-trial motions to suppress for unlawful search and entry, for unlawfully issued search warrant, illegal nighttime warrant, a request for discovery and inspection of evidence, but granted in part defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on three charges of aggravated indecent assault forcible compulsion.

  • In the Interest of A.H

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14 of 2021,D.P.

    Petitioner Lawrence County Children and Youth Services filed a petition for the involuntary termination of parental rights of the natural mother and natural father of A.H. Mother voluntarily relinquished her parental rights. The court denied the petition as to the father, finding petitioner failed to prove the statutory grounds for involuntary termination of father's parental rights father.

  • Palko v. McDonald

    Publication Date: 2023-12-11
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Cox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10635 OF 2022

    Defendant appealed the court's order granting plaintiffs' petition for rule to show cause and complaint in ejectment. The court concluded that defendant's appeal should be dismissed where the parties' prior arbitration on defendant's default under an installment land contract was a nullity because the plaintiffs' suit involved title to realty.

  • Rice v. Damron

    Publication Date: 2023-12-11
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10228 of 2021, C.A.

    Plaintiffs filed suit for eviction, ejectment and damages arising out of a lease of residential property to defendant. The court denied plaintiffs' claims where they failed to establish their damages from a purported water leak at the property or other grounds that allegedly warranted defendant's ejectment.

  • Shenango Twp. v. Kaul Inv. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10166 OF 2023, C.A.

    Plaintiff township sought a preliminary injunction prohibiting defendant property owner from utilizing its property as an online short-term rental facility in violation of the township zoning ordinance. The court granted the motion, observing that while defendant had ceased using its facility as a short-term rental, there was no evidence that defendant's facility had been altered in such a way that it could not be operated as a short-term rental once more, and thus the issue was not moot and entry of a preliminary injunction was warra