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  • Terra Firma Builders, LLC v. King

    Publication Date: 2021-05-17
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0543

    By holding that defendants waived their challenge to an unperfected mechanics' lien, despite the fact that §505 of the the Mechanics' Lien Law places no time limit on challenges raised in subsequent proceedings, the superior court improperly attempted to give legal force to an invalid judgment on the lien. The high court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Perez

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0517

    Lower court applied wrong standard at preliminary hearing by failing to view evidence in light most favorable to commonwealth and instead adopting inferences favorable to the defendant, thereby erroneously raising the commonwealth's burden of proof. Order of the superior court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Speight

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0519

    Trial court erred in not resentencing defendant who had obtained federal habeas relief vacating his death sentence, based on the trial court's determination that the federal court had failed to undertake independent judicial review of the habeas petition but instead merely accepted the agreement of the parties. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • In re: Nomination Petition of Major

    Publication Date: 2021-04-19
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0420

    The lower court properly set aside a candidate's nominating petition based on a legal challenge to the supporting signatures where it properly interpreted 25 P.S. §2868, as amended by Act 77., as imposing a mandatory duty on a signer of a nominating petition to add the address where he is duly registered and enrolled. The high court affirmed.

  • Always Busy Consulting, LLC v. Babford & Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-05
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0356

    The superior court erred in finding that Commonwealth v. Walker required quashal in this case, where a notice of appeal from an order in consolidated civil cases was filed at the lead docket number, the cases involved the same parties and issues, and the lead docket contained all the court filings and information necessary to decide the appeal. The high court reversed.

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  • J.F. v. Dep't of Human Servs.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-01
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0217

    Named perpetrator of child abuse within report designated "founded" due to perpetrator's entry into Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program on criminal charges arising from the same alleged child abuse was entitled to a hearing to challenge the report where ARD proceedings did not constitute adequate opportunity to be heard as required for an adjudication under the Administrative Agency Law. Order of the commonwealth court affimed.

  • Raynor v. D'Annunzio

    Publication Date: 2021-01-25
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0065

    Dragonetti Act claim could not be brought for post-trial motion for contempt and sanctions as it did not qualify as a "civil proceeding." Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • Woodford v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2021-01-11
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0013

    Commonwealth court and commissioner of insurance did not err in holding that §310.74(a) of the insurance department act did not authorize appellants to charge a non-refundable fee to their customers seeking to purchase personal motor vehicle insurance. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Lehman

    Publication Date: 2021-01-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0007

    The superior court properly held that costs of resentencing defendants could not be recovered from them by the district attorney where their resentencing became necessary when their original sentences were vacated upon a subsequent judicial determination that the sentences were unconstitutional. The state's high court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Katona

    Publication Date: 2020-11-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 20-1184

    Relayed information from confidential informant sufficient to support issuance of a search warrant and permitted evidence recovered from the search, pursuant to the Independent Source Doctrine. Order of the superior court affirmed.