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  • Richards v. Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-09-09
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-1063

    Trial court erred in amending verdict to add restitution damages to the treble damages awarded in plaintiffs UTPCPL action and in awarding some of the attorney fees. Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Broitman

    Publication Date: 2019-09-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-1023

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant's request for new counsel and a continuance as the court properly weighed defendant's right to counsel of choice against the state's interest in proceeding to trial and found that defendant's last minute request would burden the commonwealth and its witnesses as well as the trial court. The appellate court affirmed.

  • Karkalas v. Marks

    Publication Date: 2019-08-19
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Federal Government | Health Care | Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Kearney
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0974

    Plaintiff's malicious prosecution and unlawful detention claims failed where court lacked jurisdiction over individual defendants and, even though plaintiff had alternative remedies under federal law, individual defendants were entitled to prosecutorial and qualified immunity. Defendants' motion to dismiss granted.

  • Wall v. Altium Group, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-07-29
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Kearney
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0887

    Court awarded attorney fees to defendant in plaintiffs' action over a structured settlement investment because the master agreement the parties signed provided for attorney fees and costs but court deducted the fees related to the appeal because defendant did not follow third circuit local appellate rule 108.1. Judgment in favor of defendant.

  • Newsuan v. Republic Serv. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-08
    Practice Area: Discovery | Personal Injury
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0776

    Trial court erred in ordering production of defendant's corporate counsel's interview notes of 16 potential employee fact witnesses, in plaintiff's personal injury action, because while defendant's attorney-client privilege claim failed, defendant possessed a privilege over the communications supplied at the behest of corporate counsel to assist him in advising employer in the present litigation. Order vacated.

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  • BouSamra v. Excela Health

    Publication Date: 2019-07-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0739

    The high court concluded that remand was necessary for application of a newly articulated work product waiver analysis providing that the attorney work product doctrine is not waived by disclosure unless the alleged work product is disclosed to an adversary or disclosed in a manner that significantly increases the likelihood that an adversary/anticipated adversary will obtain such disclosure. The high court affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded.

  • In the Interest of: Z.N.F.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0721

    Trial court did not abuse discretion in finding no conflict between child's best interests and legal interests in involuntary termination of parental rights proceeding where advocate ascertained child's preferred outcome of proceeding to the extent possible, given child's immaturity and inability to understand concepts such as adoption. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Reid v. Temple Univ. Hosp.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-10
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Discovery
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Bartle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0684

    Defendants moved for discovery sanctions for plaintiff's failure to timely provide requested discovery relating to his prostate condition that he certified was caused by the stress of his discriminatory termination and court found that plaintiff disregarded the court-ordered deadline and precluded plaintiff from asserting any claim of damages related to his prostate condition. Motion granted.

  • United States v. Taylor

    Publication Date: 2019-05-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Brody
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0616

    Defendant filed a habeas corpus petition arguing ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel in her conviction for conspiracy to defraud the United States and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws and the court found the asserted conflict of interest on the part of trial counsel did not exist, the stipulation trial counsel signed was reasonable and the evidence would have come in through the testimony of an IRS agent and defendant failed to establish the Brady violat

  • Commonwealth v. Byrd

    Publication Date: 2019-05-20
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Shogan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0581

    The commonwealth charged defendant with person not to possess a firearm. While the trial was proceeding, the court received an email message with a voice recording from Brandy Wilson, who was set to testify as a character witness for defendant. Wilson said she had been threatened by assistant district attorney Lawrence Sachs. After a hearing, the trial court declared a mistrial sua sponte based on manifest necessity due to prosecutorial misconduct. The trial court later dismissed the charge with prejudice. On appeal, the commonwealth