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  • Reese v. Pennsylvanians for Union Reform

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 17-1836

    Commonwealth Court erred in dismissing treasurers claim for injunctive relief in appellees demand for production of a list of employees pursuant to §614 because regulation 7.201 lacked any statutory authority, §614 was silent with respect to the mechanism for public access and thus, the RTKL guided and controlled public access to the list but the constitutional protections for informational privacy required the application of the PSEA balancing test. Order vacated.

  • Dubose v. Quinlan et al

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 17-1825

    The high court concluded that §513(d) of the Medical Care Availability and Reduction Act established a two-year statute of limitations for medical professional liability cases in the form of wrongful death or survival actions, which period accrues at the time of the decedents death. The court affirmed the intermediate courts judgment.

  • Erie Ins. Exch. v. Bristol

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Dispute Resolution | Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 17-1790

    Statute of limitations only began to run once UM claim accrued when insurer breached insurance contract by denying arbitration or declining coverage. Order of the superior court reversed.

  • In Re: Segal

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Judges
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 17-1829

    Court of Judicial Disciplines sanction of permanent removal from judicial office lawful where based on judges repeated and willful participation in communications in which she intended to imply that she was making favorable rulings in exchange for political favors. Order of the Court of Judicial Discipline affirmed.

  • Mission Funding Alpha v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Tax
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 17-1833

    Commonwealth court erred in reversing the board of finances finding that appellees petition for a tax refund was not timely because the actual payment of the tax was the act of transferring money or credits by the taxpayer to the department, not the filing of the annual tax report. Reversed.

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  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kovalcin

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 17-1835

    Respondent was suspended for a year and a day for failing to cooperate with his prior firm partner in dissolving the firm and in abandoning the firm, for his inability to account for $10,000 of client funds owed to clients in his cases in the firms IOLTA account and neglect of client matters by failure to respond to preliminary objections in one case and by failing to respond to motions before the bankruptcy court in another case, by failing to obtain admission to practice before the bankruptcy court or secure local counsel, failing

  • In re 2014 Allegheny Cnty. Investigating Grand Jury: Appeal of WPXI

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Public Records
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 17-1791

    The public disclosure of judicial records sought by the appellant news agency did not moot appellants request for access to the judicial records from the official source in the absence of any assessment of the reliability, verifiability or completeness of the disclosed versions. The high court reversed and remanded.

  • Doe v. Franklin County et al

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 17-1824

    The intermediate court erred in finding that the legislature intended §6111(i) of the Uniform Firearms Act to override high public official immunity and permit targeted liability against a local government agency for breach of the confidentiality provision in that act. The court affirmed an intermediate court order affirming defendants judgment of sentence.

  • Commonwealth v. Mathis

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 17-1822

    In this case of first impression, the high court held that parole agents have authority to conduct a protective Terry frisk of non-parolees within the course of executing their statutorily imposed duties so long as their conduct is supported by reasonable suspicion. The court affirmed an intermediate court order affirming defendants judgment of sentence.

  • Scarnati v. Wolf

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 17-1838

    Commonwealth Court erred in denying summary relief to senators in their challenge to the governors veto of bills returned after the general assembly adjourned because Art. IV, §15 of the Pennsylvania Constitution required the bills to be returned to the house, not an agent, and the governors press release lacked the formal requirements to constitute a proclamation under §15; thus, the governors purported vetoes of the general appropriations act of 2014 and the 2014 fiscal code amendments were constitutionally deficient. Reversed.