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  • Commonwealth v. Reid

    Publication Date: 2021-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-1175

    PCRA matter remanded for PCRA court to issue supplemental opinion where court failed to state the reasons why it denied defendant's claim that counsel was ineffective for failing to litigate defendant's competency to stand trial and his brief self-representation. Order of the PCRA court affirmed in part, remanded in part.

  • United Blower, Inc. v. Lycoming County Water & Sewer Auth.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-11
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 21-1173

    Commonwealth court erred in calculating the costs of blowers used in a public project for the purposes of determining percentages of foreign and domestic steel under the Steel Act and court found the proper denominator was the total cost of all articles, materials and supplies and the numerator was the total cost to acquire just the foreign AMSs or the total cost to acquire just the domestic AMSs. Reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Raboin

    Publication Date: 2021-09-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1089

    Admission of forensic interview of child sexual assault victim in its entirety under Rule 106 was erroneous where only certain portions of the interview would have served to correct misleading impressions introduced by defense cross-examination. Judgment of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Howard

    Publication Date: 2021-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 21-1048

    A parent riding with their young child in a car-for-hire that did not have a child car seat installed did not, without more, support a conviction for endangering the welfare of a child.

  • In re: The Honorable Stephanie Domitrovich

    Publication Date: 2021-09-13
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-1044

    Administrative order issued by president judge to disqualify trial court judge from hearing single-party petitions submitted by the judge's family member was not a final, appealable order but could be reviewed by supreme court under its general supervisory authority. Appeal quashed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Edwards

    Publication Date: 2021-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1014

    Superior court properly interpreted merger statute to require only evaluating the statutory elements of offenses rather than the specific factual circumstances of committed offenses in determining whether to merge convictions. Judgment of the superior court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Cobbs

    Publication Date: 2021-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-1012

    Defendant's conviction for assault by a life prisoner and resulting second life sentence could not stand where the lower court had vacated his predicate sentence of life imprisonment based on precedent barring the imposition of life sentences upon juvenile offenders. The high court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Jordan

    Publication Date: 2021-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-1018

    Inconsistent verdicts from simultaneous jury and bench trials did not run afoul of double jeopardy protections where a defendant was being subjected to only one prosecution and inconsistent verdicts were generally permissible. Judgment of the superior court affirmed.

  • Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants, Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0995

    Plaintiffs challenged hospital's withholding of credential committee documents as privileged and court found a hospital credential committee qualified as a "review committee" for purposes of the Peer Review Protection Act, to the extent it undertook peer review, and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act protected from disclosure the responses given by the National Practitioner Data Bank to queries submitted to it. Reversed and vacated.

  • Donovan v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 21-0991

    Stacking waiver form required by the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law failed to provide sufficient notice that the policyholder was waiving inter-policy stacking in addition to intra-policy stacking where the policy covered multiple vehicles. Matter returned to Third Circuit.