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  • Villella v. Guerriere

    Publication Date: 2024-09-20
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 1986 of 2021, G.D.

    Real estate agents and their real estate agency sought summary judgment in buyers' action alleging misrepresentations in the sale of real property. The court denied the summary judgment motion in part and granted it in part. The court held in pertinent part that plaintiffs stated claims for intentional misrepresentation and violation of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act where evidence created fact questions whether sellers' real estate agent knowingly misrepresented the ownership and legality of a gravel driveway

  • Stumpo v. Camp

    Publication Date: 2023-03-13
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 78 of 2021, G.D.

    Claims to quiet title and adverse possession failed where evidence clearly showed that defendants owned the disputed property and had permitted plaintiff to use the disputed portions during the entire length of defendants' ownership of their parcel.

  • Commonwealth v. McShane

    Publication Date: 2023-01-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 617 of 2020

    The court granted in part and denied in part criminal defendant's motion to suppress statements and references to a polygraph examination. The court agreed that the totality of circumstances demonstrated that statements defendant made prior to the examination were willingly given. The court found, however, that the totality of circumstances warranted precluding references to the examination at large.

  • Calvary SPV I, LLC v. Buckholder

    Publication Date: 2023-01-02
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 2231 of 2014, G.D.

    The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment on the grounds that plaintiff failed to produce sufficient evidence under Pa.R.C.P. 1035.3(2) to establish that there was an agreement between the parties, nor that any debt was owed.

  • Commonwealth v. McShane

    Publication Date: 2022-12-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 617 of 2020

    While police employed intense tactics during an interrogation of defendant, the court found no basis for his claim that the interview was so manipulative or coercive that authorities deprived defendant of his ability to make a free and unconstrained decision to confess. The court denied defendant's motion to suppress.

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  • Rodgers v. Guerrieri

    Publication Date: 2021-07-26
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 21-0693

    In this dog bite case, plaintiffs failed to state a claim for negligence against the landlord, but they alleged sufficient facts in support of punitive damages.

  • Black v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-31
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 21-0502

    Sovereign immunity did not bar plaintiffs from asserting claims against PennDOT where PennDOT did not contest that the guardrail which allegedly caused plaintiffs' motor vehicle accident was installed at the accident site, thus becoming a fixture, and that it was down on the date of the fatal accident. The court denied defendants' motions for summary judgment.

  • Kaczmarczyk v. Uniontown Hosp.

    Publication Date: 2021-01-18
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 20-1395

    Plaintiffs' medical malpractice complaint asserting vicarious liability failed to satisfy Pa.R.Civ. P. 1019(a) where the pleading failed to identify the physicians alleged to be employees, agents or representatives of the defendant hospital and failed to state the individuals' alleged actions or omissions giving rise to liability. The court of common pleas recommended affirmance.

  • Martin v. Burchinal

    Publication Date: 2020-08-31
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 20-0834

    Plaintiffs were entitled to a disputed parcel based on adverse possession. Intervenors failed to establish a prescriptive easement.

  • The William F. Aiken, Jr. Living Trust v. Fisher

    Publication Date: 2019-09-02
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Fayette County
    Judge: Judge Vernon
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    Case Number: 19-0857

    The court denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in this adverse possession matter, because genuine issues of material fact existed regarding defendants' continuous possession of the disputed property.