• Heidel v. Fowler

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1587 MDA 2023

    Court upheld sexual violence protective order where non-consensual touching of the arm or torso was of the variety normally reserved for close, personal, intimate relationships and thus could constitute indecent contact. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
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    Case Number: 1195 WDA 2023

    The court vacated and remanded the trial court's order dismissing the Commonwealth's petition to revoke defendant's participation in the accelerated rehabilitative disposition program following her arrest for, inter alia, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, aggravated assault.

  • Aita v. NCB Mgmt. Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Accounting | Call Centers
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
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    Case Number: 510 EDA 2022

    The court affirmed the trial court's order that an employee could bring an action for liquidated damages under the Wage Payment and Collection Law, 42 Pa. C.S. §§ 260.1-260.45, regardless of whether the employer has paid all outstanding wages by the time legal action commenced.

  • Commonwealth v. McCullough

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 824 WDA 2022

    Appellant's judgment of sentence for aggravated assault, person not to possess a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, and recklessly endangering another person was affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Eakin

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 1113 WDA 2021

    Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's motion to suppress. The court reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court erred in suppressing evidence derived from a traffic stop conducted by a police officer acting outside his primary jurisdiction where a township's technical violation of the Municipal Police Jurisdiction Act did not invalidate the officer's attempt to uphold the rule of law in good faith in pulling over an inebriated driver.

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  • McWilliams v. McWilliams

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 211 WDA 2024

    Trial court correctly determined that grounds for divorce had not been established before spouse's death where spouse died less than 20 days after filing an affidavit establishing grounds for divorce and the other spouse did not affirmatively admit the allegations in the affidavit. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Kowall v. United States Steel Corp., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 844 WDA 2023

    Appellants appealed the trial court's denial of their motions for summary judgment. The court affirmed, holding in pertinent part that property owners stated Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act damages claims where their counsel had paid for environmental testing costs to determine the presence and extent of hazardous contamination caused by a metal refinery owned by defendants' predecessor. The court held further that the HSCA did not preclude plaintiffs from seeking recovery of future environmental contamination response costs.

  • Commonwealth v. Sandusky

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 1059 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the post-conviction relief court's order denying his motion for a new trial based on after-discovered evidence, which appellant argued showed that an attorney and psychologist used unduly suggestive techniques when interviewing his alleged child sexual abuse victims. The court affirmed, holding that the post-conviction relief court properly denied appellant's motion without an evidentiary hearing where he failed to show that his after-discovered evidence would be used for a purpose other than impeaching a witness's

  • Commonwealth v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 1120 MDA 2022

    Court disputed whether including prior felony conviction used in an offense gravity score as part of the defendant's prior record score constituted impermissible "double counting." Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. McCormick

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McLaughlin
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    Case Number: 1116 WDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence entered on her conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance-metabolite of a substance. The court affirmed, holding that the statute under which appellant was convicted was not unconstitutionally vague in forbidding operation of a motor vehicle with a metabolite of a controlled substance in one's blood.