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Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-1102
While defendant's appeal from an order dismissing his consumer protection counterclaim was properly before the appellate court under Pa.R.Civ.P. 232, the appeal lacked merit since the mere acquisition of counsel does not satisfy the "ascertainable loss" requirement for a claim under the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law. The appellate court affirmed in part and dismissed defendant's appeal as moot.
Publication Date: 2018-08-21
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0987
Trial court properly found husband in civil contempt of its order requiring him to make payments to wife under the parties' equitable dis-tribution agreements and properly imposed sanctions in the form of counsel fees in favor of wife because wife showed husband had notice of the order, he had the ability to pay and he chose not to do so and husband's arguments about wife's allegedly false testimony at an earlier hearing were not before the court since he had squandered his opportunity for appellate review of those claims by failing t
Publication Date: 2018-08-21
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0976
Spouse not entitled to spousal share of real properties transferred by deceased spouse in the year prior to decedent's death where properties previously titled solely in decedent's name and spouse failed to present any evidence properties were legally acquired by spouse and decedent as tenants by the entireties. Decree of the orphans' court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0924
Trial court properly dismissed charges of homicide by vehicle (non-DUI) and aggravated assault by vehicle (non-DUI) in automobile accident that injured driver and killed passenger in other car because the commonwealth failed to produce any evidence that appellee acted with criminal recklessness or gross negligence. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-06-12
Practice Area: Evidence
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0667
Trial court properly ordered appellant to disclose an email a non-party sent to himself on his personal email because appellant lacked standing to assert the ordered disclosure was privileged since the attorney-client privilege belonged to the non-party, not to appellant. Affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2018-04-17
Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Real Estate
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0449
Conservatorship hearing, where parties introduced documentary evidence and elicited witness testimony, sufficiently similar to a traditional trial that appellants failure to file post-trial motions resulted in waiver of appellate issues. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Practice Area: Dispute Resolution | Real Estate
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0422
Arbitration clause concerning one parcel of property could subject other intertwined properties to arbitration as well, where adjudication of all claims in one forum was preferred to avoid conflicting or duplicative results or awards. Order of the trial court reversed.
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Cargo and Shipping
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0421
Environmental contamination costs excluded from coverage where insured could not prove it was source of contamination, or whether the contamination occurred outside the term of the relevant policies, or where such costs were in the form of civil penalties. Orders of the trial court affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 18-0324
Counsel ineffective for advising offender to proceeding to parole revocation hearing prior to trail on new charges to secure work release, where offender may have been ineligible for work release, and was ultimately acquitted on new charges. Order of the PCRA court reversed, revocation sentence vacated.
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Gantman
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Case Number: 17-1765
The appellate court granted defendant, a sex offender, the opportunity to seek relief under the holding in Commonwealth v. Muniz, which found the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act unconstitutional, because the holding created a substantive rule that retroactively applied in the collateral context. The court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.
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