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  • Centric Bank v. Sciore

    Publication Date: 2021-09-20
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-1087

    Warrant of attorney to confess judgment was not prohibited or unconscionable where made in the context of a commercial loan, where borrowers were sophisticated businesspersons or otherwise failed to make effort to understand the meaning of the loan documents and confession of judgment. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. King

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0988

    Trial counsel was not ineffective where police were obligated to conduct inventory search of vehicle prior to required tow of the vehicle, and where counsel correctly advised appellant of the risks of proceeding with a jury trial. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Lee

    Publication Date: 2021-08-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0908

    Prior adjudication of delinquency for DUI could be used as predicate for second-offense DUI sentencing where juvenile adjudications offered same due process protections as criminal proceedings. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Situs Prop., Inc. v. Jenkins Court Realty Co., LP

    Publication Date: 2021-07-26
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0846

    Trial court's order denying appellant's petition to strike a broker's lien under the commercial real estate broker lien act was interlocutory and court quashed the appeal. Appeal quashed.

  • Van Divner v. Sweger

    Publication Date: 2021-07-12
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0786

    Trial court erred in transferring appellants' underinsured motorist actions under the forum selection clause in car driver's automobile insurance policy because forum selection clause was not ambiguous, clearly tied the relevant time of residency to the time the action was brought and the proper forum was Juniata county for driver and Dauphin county for passenger. Order vacated and remanded.

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  • Brown v. The End Zone, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-12
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0798

    The trial court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendants' request for a new trial on damages or remittitur where the jury's verdict for plaintiff was supported by the record and did not shock the conscience so as to suggest that the jury was influenced by partiality, prejudice, mistake or corruption. The appellate court affirmed in part.

  • In the Interest of S.D.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-05
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0770

    Mother and father filed single notices of appeal that listed two separate docket numbers, the termination of parental rights on the adoption docket and the change in permanency goal on the dependency docket and court found they failed to comply with rule 341 and quashed their appeals.

  • Commonwealth v. Wright

    Publication Date: 2021-06-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0704

    Parole officer had reasonable suspicion to conduct a search of parolee's vehicle after discovering parolee in possession of marijuana, after which the parolee attempted to conceal and then lied about the nature of keys that were used to access the vehicle for search. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Elliot-Greenleaf, P.C. v. Rothstein

    Publication Date: 2021-06-14
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0681

    Pro se appellant appealed the award of fees to legal firm that had represented him and court quashed the appeal because the substantial briefing defects in appellant's brief hampered the court's ability to identify the issues raised or arguments presented, or to conduct any meaningful appellate review. Appeal quashed.

  • Commonwealth v. Hand

    Publication Date: 2021-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 21-0677

    PCRA court properly denied appellant's petition asserting ineffective assistance of counsel at the hearing to suppress evidence of his blood draw and at sentencing after he caused a multi-car accident with multiple victims because court properly found exigent circumstances justified the warrantless blood draw and his allegations regarding his sentencing were inaccurate. Affirmed