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Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Younge
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Case Number: 00514
Plaintiff could not sustain her personal injury action against defendant, a commonwealth agency, where she failed to meet her burden on causation and failed to demonstrate that defendant negligently maintained the highway where she fell off her bicycle by allowing a pothole or dangerous condition to exist. The trial court recommended affirmance.
Publication Date: 2022-12-05
Practice Area: Personal Injury
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Hill
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Case Number: 06965
Court denied plaintiff's cross-appeal for delay damages on the basis that plaintiff failed to produce any evidence of how they arrived at their delay damages calculation. The court further noted that plaintiff failed to identify any delays which were attributable to defendant's conduct but instead found that the lengthy delay in the pre-trial history of the case was partially plaintiff's fault because plaintiff had failed to adhere to several discovery timelines.
Publication Date: 2022-12-05
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Schulman
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Case Number: 190802434
Pursuant to federal case guidance, plaintiff was not entitled to a new trial based on an allegedly erroneous jury instruction as the court correctly charged the jury that the existence of probable cause as to one criminal charge barred plaintiff's malicious prosecution claim entirely. The court recommended affirmance.
Publication Date: 2022-12-05
Practice Area: Civil Appeals
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Schulman
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Case Number: 1494 EDA 2022
Court requested that the superior court affirm the court's previous order denying appellant's request for the court to open the judgment of non prosequi. The court found that appellant's request to reopen was not based on a meritorious claim because her initial complaint had been filed beyond the applicable statute of limitations. The court further found that appellant failed to offer a reasonable excuse as to why she failed to appear at trial.
Publication Date: 2022-11-28
Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
Industry: Agriculture | Distribution and Wholesale | Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Padilla
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Case Number: 02211
Plaintiffs' malpractice claims were time-barred since they first knew or should have known that they had been injured by allegedly erroneous advice back in 2004, when they executed a consent judgment in a Department of Justice investigation of business practices purportedly based on that same advice. The court granted defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings.
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Publication Date: 2022-11-28
Practice Area: Evidence
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Foglietta
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Case Number: 03298
The photographs documenting decedent's painful injuries while in hospital were directly relevant to plaintiff's wrongful death and survival claims, while defendant's argument regarding a discrepancy in the date of the photos went to the weight to be given such evidence at trial. The court recommended affirmance.
Publication Date: 2022-11-28
Practice Area: Civil Appeals
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Hill
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Case Number: 06965
Court affirmed the trial court's ruling denying motions to preclude evidence stemming from a MRI noting that while the parties did have difficulty retrieving the MRI images from the third-party imaging company, plaintiff's medical expert received the images and included them in his expert opinion report. The court further found that the jury did not need to conclude that plaintiff had suffered "serious bodily injury" in reaching their award of economic damages.
Publication Date: 2022-11-28
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Manufacturing | Retail
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Shirdan-Harris
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Case Number: 1358 EDA 2022
Plaintiff could not recover costs he incurred for the installation of two replacement compressors as such costs qualified as consequential damages under Pennsylvania law, which the product's manufacturer and seller expressly excluded in warranties. The court recommended affirmance of its order granting defendants summary judgment.
Publication Date: 2022-11-28
Practice Area: Real Estate
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Street
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Case Number: 00062
The court granted defendant's request for an appeal of a default judgment after pro se plaintiff failed to accurately name defendant in the caption, body, and service of the complaint.
Publication Date: 2022-11-21
Practice Area: Civil Procedure
Industry: Manufacturing | Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Kennedy
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Case Number: 1222
The court affirmed the decision of the trial court finding that venue was proper because one appellant had sufficient quantity and quality of acts to qualify Philadelphia County as a proper venue. The court additionally held that venue was proper for the remaining appellant under Pa. R.C.P. 1006(c)(1).
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