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  • Commonwealth v. Maddrey

    Publication Date: 2019-03-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 19-0264

    Where the court below found that defendant's case was brought to trial well within the time required by Pa.R.Crim.P. 600 and defendant failed to present any arguments to refute this conclusion, he failed to raise any meritorious issues on appeal. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Commonwealth v. Wyatt

    Publication Date: 2019-02-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 19-0179

    Writ of habeas corpus on vehicular assault and homicide charges properly granted where there was no evidence that defendant was so distracted while driving to constitute a conscious disregard of substantial risk of injury or death to support finding the requisite mens rea of recklessness. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Gray v. PennyMac Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-01-29
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights | Real Estate
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 19-0083

    Trial court properly exercised discretion to dismiss an action and bar plaintiff from further related litigation after she had already litigated her claim that she was entitled to a setoff or removal of liability in two prior related actions. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Koziar v. Rayner

    Publication Date: 2018-12-25
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 18-1559

    The trial court erred in vacating the jury verdict and granting a new trial in appellee's premises liability/slip-and-fall action because the jury verdict, that found appellants negligent but that the negligence was not a factual cause of appellee's damages, was not inconsistent and the jury could reasonably have found that appellee's own negligence caused her injuries. Reversed.

  • Wallace v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-12-18
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution | Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 18-1537

    Trial court properly affirmed the arbitration award in appellant's action over underinsured motorist coverage because appellant never preserved her objection to the neutral arbitrator's participation in the process and she waived all issues for appeal due to her failure to comply with the rules of appellate procedure. Affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Venable

    Publication Date: 2018-12-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 18-1533

    Suppression of blood draw results was not required where voluntariness of defendant's consent was not abrogated by police failure to advise of the consequences of refusal to consent, previously ruled unconstitutional, or defendant's subjective belief about the continued effectiveness of such consequences. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2018-12-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 18-1484

    Petition seeking to reduce or discharge sentence was properly cognizable as under the PCRA, and thus the petition was properly dismissed as filed outside the one-year time bar with no assertion of any statutory exceptions to the time bar. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Pledger v. Janssen Pharm., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-11-13
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Health Care Law | Personal Injury
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 18-1339

    Both parties appealed in plaintiffs' successful action against defendant pharmaceutical company for failure to warn its drug could cause gynecomastia in a child and court found trial court properly allowed plaintiffs to switch experts in the middle of trial, that defendant could not rely on the learned intermediary doctrine, the jury instruction on causation properly stated the law and the court remanded plaintiffs' punitive damages claim. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

  • Yablonski v. Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-10-30
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements | Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 18-1298

    Trial court did not err in awarding past due salary and liquidated damages under the WPCL to attorney who had an agreement with law firm for a salary which firm failed to pay because despite firm's allegation that attorney violated his duties of loyalty, diligence, good faith and promptness, attorney's days out of the office did not impact firm's revenue, there was no policy prohibiting working from home and firm's attempt to renegotiate the terms of plaintiff's contract belied the claim that firm believed he had constructively termin

  • M.W. v. S.T.

    Publication Date: 2018-10-16
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
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    Case Number: 18-1240

    Trial court properly dismissed grandmother's complaint for custody of her grandchildren because she lacked standing since, by the time the court heard the petition, Children and Youth Services had closed the investigation and dependency proceedings and children were living with their parents and trial court correctly considered the circumstances as they were at the time of the petition to dismiss in determining standing. Affirmed.