• Commonwealth v. Dunkins

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-1404

    The trial court did not err in refusing to suppress cell site location information gathered by college officials while investigating an on-campus robbery where defendant voluntarily abandoned any purported expectation of privacy in such records by assenting to the college's computing resources policy and logging on to the college WiFi network with his cell phone. The high court affirmed.

  • Peters v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1416

    Plaintiff appealed the denial of his workers' compensation claim for injuries from an automobile accident occurring after an employer sponsored event at a pub and court found the traveling employee doctrine applied and claimant did not abandon his employment but that there was an unresolved conflict of testimony as to where claimant was coming from at the time of the accident. Vacated and remanded.

  • J.S. v. Manheim Twp. Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 21-1410

    Privately communicated offensive online memes did not meet the true threat exception to warrant a student's expulsion, where there was no evidence of the maker's intent to terrorize and where there was no substantial disruption to school operations. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Rellick-Smith v. Rellick

    Publication Date: 2021-11-15
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 21-1325

    Superior court erred in affirming trial court's grant of motion to amend answers to include an affirmative defense of statute of limitations, which a prior motion judge had ruled was waived, because the coordinate jurisdiction rule applied and there was no basis for trial judge to disturb motion judge's holding that appellees waived the defense. Reversed and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Bradley

    Publication Date: 2021-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 21-1329

    A criminal defendant was entitled, after obtaining new PCRA counsel, to assert a claim of ineffective assistance of prior PCRA counsel at the first available opportunity following the appearance of new counsel, even while a PCRA petition was on appeal. Judgment of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

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  • In the Interest of T.W.

    Publication Date: 2021-11-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1294

    Appellant challenged the standards by which police officers could remove objects detected during a Terry stop and frisk and court found officer could remove the object if he or she had reasonable suspicion the object was a weapon or, if officer determined the object was not a weapon, if it was immediately apparent by touch that the object was illegal contraband. Affirmed.

  • Firearms Owners Against Crime v. Papenfuse

    Publication Date: 2021-11-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1302

    Lawful firearms owners who resided or worked in or regularly traveled to a municipality had standing to challenge municipal ordinances regulating the possession and use of firearms as the active enforcement of the ordinances gave the owners a substantial and immediate interest in determining the legality and constitutionality of the ordinances. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Apartment Ass'n of Metro. Pittsburgh, Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh

    Publication Date: 2021-11-08
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 21-1305

    The commonwealth court did not err in finding that the Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law's business exclusion precluded a Pittsburgh ordinance that proscribed source-of-income discrimination in Section 8 housing. The high court affirmed.

  • In re: Appeal for Formation of Indep. Sch. Dist. of Borough of Highspire

    Publication Date: 2021-10-25
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 21-1236

    Secretary of education was entitled to consider financial impacts to proposed independent school district and the existing school districts that students in the independent district would transfer from and to when evaluating a petition from "an educational standpoint." Order of the commonwealth court reversed, case remanded.

  • Trust Under Will of Ashton

    Publication Date: 2021-10-25
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-1234

    Trust beneficiary entitled to fixed annuity payments had standing from equitable interest in trust corpus to challenge trustee's administration and request for additional compensation. Order of the superior court reversed.