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  • Trust B Under Agreement of Wells

    Publication Date: 2022-09-26
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Education | Non-Profit
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 1269 WDA 2021

    Orphans' Court properly denied appellant university and trust beneficiary's motion to terminate the trust because appellant had not proven the existence of "administrative expense or other burdens unreasonably out of proportion to the charitable benefits" as required by 20 Pa.C.S.A. §7740.3(e). Affirmed.

  • Jones v. Erie Ins. Exch.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-26
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 690 WDA 2020

    Personal auto insurer could not use policy exclusion to avoid obligation to provide underinsured motorist coverage, where Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law required an insured to execute a statutorily prescribed form to waive UIM coverage. Judgment of the trial court reversed, case reamended.

  • Commonwealth v. McMahon

    Publication Date: 2022-08-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0976

    Trial court did not err in denying appellant's motion to suppress marijuana cigarettes officers saw in vehicle's center console cupholder during a legitimate traffic stop because officers had lawful right to seize evidence observed in plain view. Affirmed.

  • Laret v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2022-07-25
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0825

    Trial court erred in sustaining preliminary objections to partition action where plaintiff had adequately pled an equitable interest in the subject property. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • Adams v. Mt. Lebanon Operations, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-06-13
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0653

    The trial court properly refused to enforce an arbitration provision in an admission agreement executed before the decedent was admitted to a nursing home since the defendant nursing home failed to prove that decedent authorized plaintiff to be her power of attorney. The appellate court affirmed.

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  • In re Trust Established Under Agreement of Scaife

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0635

    Orphans' court properly compelled discovery based on a fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege.

  • Porter v. Nikita Lodging, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-16
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0550

    Appellants appealed the imposition of sanctions for their failure to comply with a court order to stabilize a family cemetery that appellants' construction had threatened and court found appellants failure to timely appeal a November 2019 order issuing an injunction waived any issues relating to that order and the September 2021 order imposing sanctions of $397,000 was not final and appealable. Appeal quashed.

  • Commonwealth v. Hardy

    Publication Date: 2022-04-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0426

    PCRA petition for DNA testing was untimely when filed decades after conviction, where defendant failed to explain how testing of crime scene items, including items already tested during trial, would prove that defendant was not the perpetrator or identify someone else as the perpetrator. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • 9795 Perry Highway Mgmt. LLC v. Bernard

    Publication Date: 2022-04-11
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0392

    Trial court properly denied appellants' petition to strike or open the confessed judgment after appellants terminated a commercial lease because state-ordered COVID-19 closures were not a "substantial" frustration of purpose, the closure order was not a "de facto taking" and appellants waived their claim as to defects on the face of the confessed judgment. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2022-02-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 22-0225

    Ineffective assistance of counsel claim dismissed where record demonstrated that appellant admitted to being proficient in English and having been advised that there could be immigration consequences to a guilty plea. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.