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  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-07-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McCaffery
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    Case Number: 1256 WDA 2021

    Appellant appealed from a judgment of sentence entered on his open guilty pleas to charges of voluntary manslaughter and arson endangering persons. The court affirmed.

  • In the Interest of H.H.N.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 3024 EDA 2022

    Mother moved to vacate the decrees terminating her parental rights and court found trial court committed an error of law and abused its discretion in dismissing children's TPR counsel from the November 2022 hearing and deprived children of their statutory right to counsel. Decrees vacated.

  • Commonwealth v. Aumick

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 1529 EDA 2020

    Sexual Offender Assessment Board investigators were permitted to consider documents and information outside the facts admitted to by a defendant or found by a jury in rendering an opinion concerning a defendant's SVP designation. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Cavallo Mineral Partners, LLC v. EQT Prod. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 834 WDA 2022

    Court quashed appeal of judgment on the pleadings in quiet title action where judgment did not apply to all defendants and the judgment was made without prejudice to plaintiff filing an amended pleading restating its quiet title, conversion, trespass, and ejectment claims. Appeal quashed.

  • Commonwealth v. James

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 822 EDA 2022

    Statutory prohibition on the release of medical records relating to communicable diseases by state and local health authorities did not apply to prison medical records as the department of prisons did not qualify as a state health authority. Order of the trial court affirmed.

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  • White v. Malecki

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 1548 MDA 2022

    Trial court properly awarded father primary custody and granted father's request to relocate child to his home in Germany but abused its discretion in obligating mother to pay for nearly all of child's transportation costs in order to exercise her partial custody. Affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Velasquez v. Miranda

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 2688 EDA 2022

    Court agreed with trial court that children were not eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status but on other grounds where court noted children had not been adjudicated dependent or placed in the legal custody of a state agency, individual or entity appointed by a state or juvenile court. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Faison

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McCaffery
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    Case Number: 909 EDA 2022

    Prior bad acts evidence of past assaults and rape of the victim was admissible as relevant to prove defendant's intent to rape the victim in the present assault since defendant asserted lack of intent and consent as defenses to his charges. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Berrios

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 1094 MDA 2022

    Open lewdness statute was not unconstitutionally vague where defendant's statements upon being confronted by law enforcement indicated she knew that exposing her breasts was illegal, as the statute implicitly excluded breastfeeding from criminal liability. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Ross

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 775 EDA 2022

    Police could ask drivers whether they had weapons in their possession while completing a traffic stop in the interest of ensuring officer safety. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.