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  • Bailets v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission et al

    Publication Date: 2018-04-10
    Practice Area: Damages | Whistleblower Laws
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 18-0413

    Addressing an issue of first impression, the high court concluded that non-economic damages for items such as humiliation and loss of reputation are available to successful plaintiffs in suits brought under the Whistleblower Law; therefore, the trial court did not err in entering a plaintiffs verdict which included $1.6 million in non-economic damages. The court affirmed the judgment for plaintiff.

  • Office of Admin. v. State Employees Retirement Bd.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 18-0394

    Commonwealth Court properly held that the union differentials received by police officers while on union leave were included in retirement benefit calculations and that Kirsch v. Public School Employees Retirement Bd., 985 A. 2d 671, did not apply due to the differing definitions of compensation in the applicable statutes. Affirmed.

  • Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, P.L.L.C. v. Law Firm of Malone Middleman, PC

    Publication Date: 2018-03-20
    Practice Area: Damages
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 18-0279

    Superior court erred in reversing the trial courts award of quantum meruit damages to predecessor law firm because where successor counsel received and retained a benefit from predecessor counsels work, predecessor counsel was entitled to some payment.

  • Cagey v. Commonwealth, Dept. of Transportation

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 18-0214

    PennDOT was not immune from suit in this case, as plaintiffs allegations that PennDOT created a dangerous condition by negligently designing and installing a dangerous guardrail fit squarely within the Sovereign Immunity Acts real estate exception. The court reversed the intermediate court and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Fulton

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 18-0217

    Police violated defendants constitutional rights when they searched his cell phone for information in a criminal investigation without a warrant. The court reversed the intermediate appellate court and remanded.

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  • Commonwealth v. Resto

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0220

    Alleyne v. U.S. did not mandate the unconstitutionality of a mandatory minimum sentence that did not require the finding of any aggravating fact. Order of the superior court reversed, judgment of sentence reinstated.

  • Danganan v. Guardian Prot. Serv.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Consumer Protection
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0215

    A non-resident could bring a UTPCPL action against a Pennsylvania-based business for alleged conduct occurring outside the commonwealth, consistent with the UTPCPLs broad goal of fraud prevention and the concern that misconduct by Pennsylvania companies could negatively impact the commonwealth.

  • League of Women Voters of Pa. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0174

    Free and Equal Elections Clause of Pennsylvania Constitution required that representative districts be compact and contiguous, without breaking up counties and municipalities, and of roughly equal population, which best ensured that each voter in every community had an equally effective opportunity to select representatives of his or her choice. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. VanDivner

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0169

    Death sentence vacated where appellant presented sufficient evidence at pretrial hearing to support finding that he was intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for death penalty. Judgment of sentence of death vacated, life sentence imposed.

  • Shearer v. Hafer

    Publication Date: 2018-02-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Expert Witnesses | Motor Vehicle Torts
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
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    Case Number: 18-0077

    Superior court erred in considering appellants appeal of the trial court order disallowing the presence of appellants counsel during the standardized portion of a neuropsychological examination because the order was not an appealable order as of right under Pa.R.A.P. 313 where the order met only one of the three prongs of the collateral order doctrine. Vacated.