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Publication Date: 2024-02-16
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 77 MAP 2022
Superior court's conclusion that the "regular use" exclusion in an automobile insurance policy violated the language of the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law was erroneous because court was bound by the decisions in Burstein v. Prudential Property & Cas. Ins. Co., 809 A.2d 204, and Williams v. GEICO Gov't Emps. Ins. Co., 32 A.3d 1195, that the "regular use" exclusion was a permissible limitation of UIM coverage under the MVFRL. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-02-09
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: Federal Government | Health Care
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 26 MAP 2021
Court overruled precedent upholding constitutionality of Coverage Exclusion in the Abortion Control Act since the exclusion created a discriminatory distinction between the sexes and thus was presumptively unconstitutional under the Equal Rights Amendment. Orders of the commonwealth court reversed, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 32 WAP 2022
Post Conviction Relief Act petition failed where defendant admitted she would have only accepted a plea offer if she had no chance of acquittal, which precluded her from establishing prejudice from trial counsel's alleged deficient advice. Order of the superior court vacated and remanded.
Publication Date: 2023-09-11
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 20 WAP 2022
Superior court erred in reversing orphans' court's finding a trust was void because the power of attorney under which the trust was created was void ab initio because it was not executed as prescribed by subsection 5601(b)(3) of the probate, estates and fiduciaries code and court held the POA was legally non-existent and the trust a legal nullity. Judgment vacated.
Publication Date: 2023-08-14
Practice Area: Securities Litigation
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 57 MAP 2022
Plain text of Section 401 of Pennsylvania Securities Act contained no language indicating that legislature intended to impose scienter requirement for civil liability, although other provisions of the act allowed defendants to assert lack of knowledge of falsity as an affirmative defense. Order of the superior court affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2023-08-07
Practice Area: Business Torts
Industry: Insurance
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 13 WAP 2022
Trial court could use a per-defendant approach to calculating the compensatory-to-punitive damages ratio to assess the constitutionality of a punitive damages award, even though the trial court imposed a joint and several compensatory damages award on defendants. Order of the superior court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-05-15
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: Energy | Mining and Resources | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 69 MAP 2021
Legislature conferred authority upon environmental regulatory agencies to define what constituted "public resources" in the context of approval of unconventional gas well applications. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
Publication Date: 2023-05-15
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 39 MAP 2022
Commonwealth court erred in upholding appellant's sentence on his first DUI where appellant was sentenced to two DUI's on the same day and trial court found both offenses had to be considered prior offenses to each other because subsection 3806(b)(3) made clear that when two or more judgments of sentence were entered on the same day, that timing did not impact the calculation of the sentences as a prior offense at the time of sentencing on the present violation. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2023-03-13
Practice Area: Tax
Industry: Legal Services | Manufacturing | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 11 MAP 2021
Court found the office of attorney general was permitted to take a position inconsistent with that of the department of revenue regarding the meaning of 72 P.S. §7401(3)2.(a)(17), that department's interpretation of subparagraph 17 to require the use of the benefit-received method was correct and plaintiff was due a refund of its 2011 corporate net income tax. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-02-06
Practice Area: Election and Political Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 91 MAP 2022
Candidates appealed the setting aside of their petitions to run for an office in the general election after they had voluntarily withdrawn their petitions to run in the primary election and asked the commonwealth court to remove their names from the ballot and court found the Packrall exception to the "sore loser" provision did into apply in circumstances where a candidate obtained a court order withdrawing her primary election nomination petitions pursuant to §978.4 of the election code or where a court granted a petition to set asid
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