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  • John v. Philadelphia Pizza Team, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-20
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0570

    Trial court properly dismissed appellant's complaint asserting negligent training and supervision, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress over restaurant employee's use of an offensive racial term because the trial court properly found that employee's behavior did not rise to the level of extreme and outrageous conduct Affirmed.

  • Norman v. Temple Univ. Health Sys.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0565

    Trial court properly held that son and administrator of decedent's estate could not represent the estate pro se in a negligence action against medical defendants because son was not the sole beneficiary of the estate and a non-attorney could not represent an estate. Affirmed.

  • Weber v. Weber

    Publication Date: 2019-05-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0557

    Child's petition for special relief for parent's payment of college expenses pursuant to divorce property settlement agreement dismissed due to expiration of the statute of limitations running from the completion of undergraduate expenses. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Harlan

    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0513

    While the affidavit of probable cause supporting a search warrant contained hearsay information from a confidential informant and a concerned citizen, the totality of the circumstances set forth in the affidavit was sufficient to demonstrate a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime would be found. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Commonwealth v. Nichols

    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0516

    Appellant's filing of a single notice of appeal from an order resolving multiple dockets, following the decision in Commonwealth v. Walker, required quashal of the appeal. Appeal quashed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Lippincott

    Publication Date: 2019-04-29
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0485

    SORNA did not apply to sex offender who committed underlying offenses prior to the effective date of SORNA, since SORNA's punitive nature meant that retroactive application would pose an ex post facto violation. Order of the trial court vacated.

  • Commonwealth v. Wood

    Publication Date: 2019-04-29
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0484

    Application of SORNA to sex offender constituted an ex post facto violation where offender's underlying offense occurred before the effective date of SORNA. Judgment of sentence vacated.

  • Morse v. Fisher Asset Mgmt., LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution | Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0333

    Trial court properly denied appellant's petition to vacate an arbitration award because the trial court's sustaining of appellees' preliminary objections and dismissing her original 2009 complaint did not stop the running of the statute of limitations and the applicability of the statutes of limitations was properly before the arbitrator. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Tanner

    Publication Date: 2019-03-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0284

    Court vacated appellant's plea deal in its entirety in his conviction for multiple counts of forgery, theft by unlawful taking and access device fraud because the part of his sentence requiring restitution was void and unenforceable since township was not a "victim" under the statute and the sentence was illegal. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Baumgartner

    Publication Date: 2019-03-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 19-0279

    The evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction on charges of animal fighting for amusement or gain where defendant had a personal motive to instigate a dog fight and caused his dog to attack the victim's dog as a means of retribution. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.