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  • S. Bethlehem Assocs., LP v. Zoning Hearing Bd. of Bethlehem Twp., Pennsylvania

    Publication Date: 2023-06-05
    Practice Area: Litigation
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 41 MAP 2022

    Appellant appealed a decision of the Commonwealth Court holding that appellant lacked standing to seek judicial review of a variance decision of a local zoning board. The court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Rollins

    Publication Date: 2023-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 70 MAP 2022

    Appellant appealed his sentence, contending the vehicle code provision that he violated was unconstitutionally vague for failing to specify a maximum term of imprisonment. The court affirmed the Superior Court's order affirming appellant's judgment of sentence.

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

    Publication Date: 2023-05-08
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 42 MAP 2022

    Appellants appealed the Superior Court's decision affirming the trial court's determination that they were not entitled to stacked underinsured motorist coverage after they removed a vehicle from their multi-vehicle insurance policy without executing a new stacked coverage waiver. The court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Perrin

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 2 EAP 2022

    Parties' joint stipulation affirming witness's credibility in motion for new trial was not valid or enforceable where trial court possessed sole discretion regarding credibility determinations. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Myers v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2023-03-13
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 67 MAP 2021

    Discount or coupon could establish new purchase price for sales tax only if the excluded part of the price was specifically identified and the item and coupon to which it applied was also specifically described on the invoice or receipt. Order of the commonwealth court reversed, petition dismissed.

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  • In re: Trust Under Deed of Garrison

    Publication Date: 2023-02-06
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 61 MAP 2022

    Trial court erred in applying precedent that barred beneficiaries from modifying trust instrument to remove and replace trustees, where modification of trust to grant removal power to beneficiaries had been unanimously consented to by the settlor and beneficiaries. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • In re: Am. Network Ins. Co. (in Liquidation)

    Publication Date: 2022-11-07
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 58 MAP 2021

    Appellant's notice of appeal from a commonwealth court panel's order was a timely appeal as of right from a final order in a declaratory judgment action, which triggered the jurisdictional limits imposed by 42 Pa.C.S. §5505. The high court affirmed.

  • Kornfeind v. New Werner Holding Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-12
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Retail
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 22-1030

    Pennsylvania borrowing statute only applied temporal restrictions under foreign jurisdiction's statute of limitations, not its statute of repose, where the language of the borrowing statute expressly referred to the "accrual" of claims and where Pennsylvania considered statutes of repose substantive law subject to choice of law analysis. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Jones-Williams

    Publication Date: 2022-08-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 22-0852

    Superior court properly reversed trial court's denial of appellee's motion to suppress blood test results under exigent circumstances but erred in addressing the constitutionality of 75 Pa.C.S. §3775. Affirmed in part, vacated in part.

  • A.L. v. Pennsylvania State Police

    Publication Date: 2022-05-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 22-0590

    Defendant's court-martial conviction for sexual assault could not be the basis for his classification as a Tier III lifetime registrant under Pennsylvania's Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act where his military offense was not "comparable" to sexual assault under Pennsylvania's Crimes Code. The high court affirmed.