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  • Smith v. A.O. Smith Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 22-0162

    Defendant Vanadium moved for summary judgment in plaintiff executrix's asbestos case and court found trial court properly held record lacked sufficient evidence to make a prima facie claim that Vanadium was liable under a successor liability theory. Motion granted.

  • Commonwealth v. Gilbert

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 22-0167

    Testimony of treating psychiatrist properly excluded where the psychiatrist would only testify about defendant's general mental health and was not going to provide an opinion regarding defendant's diminished capacity to form the requisite criminal intent. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-1517

    Surveillance video, deemed admissible and shown to trial court sitting as factfinder, was part of evidentiary record despite no formal motion to admit the video into evidence, particularly where both parties relied upon the video in their case-in-chief. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Gito, Inc. v. Axis Architecture, P.C.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Construction | Education
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-1498

    Anti-assignment clause barring assignment of a contract or rights/obligations under the contract did not by itself preclude assignment of post-performance claims for damages. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Keystone Specialty Servs. Co. v. Ebaugh

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-1412

    Tenant's appeal from summary judgment dismissal of personal property damage claim denied where tenant failed to identify the specific errors complained of on appeal. Order of the trial court affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2021-10-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-1233

    Driver's admission to consumption of marijuana combined with defendant's uncooperativeness and demands that police not search his bag inside of a vehicle gave officers probable cause to search both the vehicle and the bag. Judgment of sentence affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Fretts

    Publication Date: 2021-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-1202

    Homicide by vehicle charge properly quashed where the commonwealth's evidence showed that driver failed to yield to bicyclist that was not visible to driver despite looking and where vehicle code violations alone only amounted to negligence rather than recklessness. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Capstone Capital Group, LLC v. Alexander Perry, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-18
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-1200

    Assertion of meritorious defense was insufficient to support petition to open a foreign judgment, where a judgment debtor could only attack the validity of a foreign judgment on jurisdictional or procedural grounds. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Sullivan v. Holy Redeemer Hosp. & Med. Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-11
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-1167

    Trial court erred in holding that plaintiff's complaint asserting damages for a vaccine-related injury was not subject to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act's exhaustion of remedies requirement. Reversed.

  • Clark v. Peugh

    Publication Date: 2021-07-12
    Practice Area: Damages
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-0794

    Criminal defendant could not file civil claims to challenge a victim's representations supporting a restitution order, where the appropriate remedy would be to seek amendment of the sentencing order with the sentencing court. Order of the trial court affirmed.