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Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Baer
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Case Number: 19-0116
The superior court erred in upholding the trial court's grant of summary judgment to insurer in appellant's action seeking the stacked UIM coverage in the motorcycle and automobile insurance policies he bought from insurer because the "household vehicle exclusion" in the automobile policy was inconsistent with the requirements of 75 Pa.C.S. §1738 regarding waiver of UIM coverage and was invalid and unenforceable. Judgment vacated.
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Discovery | Evidence
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Dougherty
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Case Number: 19-0125
Brady violation was not prejudicial where commonwealth presented overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt, including evidence linking a prior carjacking, the carjacking victim's identification, other eyewitnesses known to defendant identifying him as the perpetrator, and defendant's prior possession of the murder weapon. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Dougherty
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Case Number: 19-0119
The intermediate appellate court erred in concluding that defendant's enhanced sentence for driving while intoxicated was not unconstitutional where he not only refused to submit to blood testing, but also refused to submit to breath testing. The high court vacated defendant's judgment of sentence.
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Baer
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Case Number: 19-0127
Trial court properly exercised discretion to deny presentence motion to withdraw plea of nolo contendere when it concluded, based on the facts of the case, that defendant was making a bare assertion of innocence. Order of the superior court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 19-0120
Pursuant to the fugitive forfeiture rule as applied in Commonwealth v. Deemer, the appellate court correctly affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence after the trial court found that he forfeited his appellate rights due to his fugitive status, even where counsel filed a timely notice of appeal on his behalf. The high court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.
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Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources | Fee Disputes
Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 19-0001
The commonwealth court erred in its interpretation of "vertical gas well" under act 13 and the court held that an unconventional well was a vertical gas well subject to assessment of an impact fee whenever that well's production exceeded 90,000 cubic feet per day in at least one calendar month of the year. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 19-0002
Because the Child Protective Services Law's definition of "child" did not include a fetus or unborn child, a pregnant woman's drug abuse causing injury to the child upon birth did not render her a "perpetrator" of child abuse because there was no "child" at the time of mother's alleged acts of abuse. Order of the superior court reversed.
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Dougherty
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Case Number: 19-0020
Appellant did not receive ineffective assistance of penalty phase counsel where additional evidence in support of mental health and life history mitigator was cumulative of evidence provided to experts during penalty phase or was favorable to the commonwealth. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-12-18
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Privacy
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 18-1532
Redaction of information from grand jury report that tended to impair reputational rights of individuals named in report but not criminally charged was best available due process remedy, where re-empaneling grand jury and/or directing supervising judge to review new exculpatory and rebuttal evidence was not statutorily authorized. Order of the court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Baer
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Case Number: 18-1454
Superior court erred in vacating the trial court's order dismissing workers' compensation insurer's complaint brought against the alleged third-party tortfeasor "on behalf of " claimant because insurer had no authority, statutory or otherwise, to pursue claimant's cause of action without claimant's voluntary participation as a party plaintiff or the contractual assignment of her claim. Vacated.
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