• Thorpe v. Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-29
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0885

    Trial court correctly dismissed licensee's license suspension because the only evidence submitted by DOT to establish its prima facie case supporting the suspension was a defective form DL-21C in which the "Date of Disposition" block was not completed as required by DOT's regulations. Affirmed.

  • Brouillette v. Wolf

    Publication Date: 2019-07-15
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Legislation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0808

    Petitioners' constitutional challenge to the state budgets at issue were moot given that the requested declaratory relief would be of no appreciable affect due to the expiration of the relevant fiscal years, subsequent enactment of remedial legislation and, inter alia, absence of any allegations that present or future general appropriations bills were affected. The court dismissed petitioners' amended petition.

  • Pennsylvania State Police v. Sama

    Publication Date: 2019-06-10
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0640

    OAG properly ordered the Pennsylvania state police to amend the PICS database to remove the disability imposed on petitioner, in petitioner's appeal of the denial of his application to carry a firearm, because petitioner's full pardon by the governor of Delaware of his Delaware conviction excluded petitioner's offense from the uniform firearms act's definition of "conviction." Affirmed.

  • Kaminski v. Sosmetal Products, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0465

    Trial court did not abuse its discretion and did not err in issuing Pa. SSJI (Civ) 18.00, Pa SSJI (Civ) 18.50 and Pa. SSJI (Civ) 18.80 in appellant's slip and fall action based on her fall on the public sidewalk abutting defendant's property. Affirmed.

  • Cmty. Coll. of Philadelphia v. Faculty & Staff Fed. of the Cmty. Coll. of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0355

    The trial court erred in granting the union's preliminary objections on the ground that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction since the statutory provision vesting the Labor Relations Board with exclusive original jurisdiction over unfair labor practices did not divest the court of jurisdiction to entertain this equity action to enjoin a strike. The appellate court reversed and remanded.

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  • Cmty. Coll. of Philadelphia v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Bd.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Labor Law
    Industry: Education | Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0359

    PLRB lacked jurisdiction over public employer's complaint that its full-time employees and their union had engaged in a partial strike following the union's instruction to its members to stop performing mandatory assessments, while still receiving full compensation, since jurisdiction over a claim for relief from a strike lay exclusively with the courts. Order of the PLRB affirmed.

  • McCready v. Dep't of Cmty. & Econ. Dev.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-18
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0291

    State board of property correctly found that the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission took a fee simple estate when petitioner conveyed part of her property to the commission by deed in lieu of condemnation in 1990 for highway construction because petitioner's contentions in her quiet title action, that she did not intend to transfer the mineral rights and that commission abused its discretion in taking a fee simple estate, failed since the deed was clear and unambiguous and the commission clearly had the authority and discretion to obtai

  • Governor's Office of Admin. v. Campbell

    Publication Date: 2019-02-12
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0155

    OOR erred in ordering disclosure of public employees' counties of residence without performing a test balancing the public interest in disclosure against employees' constitutional right to privacy in such information. Order of the Office of Open Records reversed in part and affirmed in all other parts.

  • Betters v. Beaver County et al

    Publication Date: 2019-01-01
    Practice Area: Evidence | Expert Witnesses | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-1580

    The trial court did not err in allowing into evidence the testimony and reports of expert witnesses where the defendant county was in possession of the reports prepared by both experts and aware of data they relied upon but chose not to subpoena them. The commonwealth court affirmed the trial court's order.

  • King v. Bureau of Prof'l & Occupational Affairs

    Publication Date: 2018-10-23
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-1274

    Board's revocation of petitioner's barber licenses under §9124(c) of Criminal History Record Information Act was an abuse of discretion because the board's decision rested largely on speculative concerns, assumed no possibility of rehabilitation and did not consider the passage of time since petitioner's crime. Reversed.