• Commonwealth v. McCabe

    Publication Date: 2022-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 22-0036

    The lower courts correctly interpreted the procedural requirements for problem-solving courts such as a Veterans Treatment Court as being distinct from Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition and, thus, properly found that Chapter 3 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure did not apply to the disposition of defendant's case. The high court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Green

    Publication Date: 2022-01-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 22-0012

    Search warrant was not overbroad where it authorized the seizure of all digital devices from a residence, where law enforcement had probable cause to believe child pornography was being shared from an IP address, as the warrant only authorized searching the devices for evidence relating to child pornography. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Steltz v. Meyers

    Publication Date: 2022-01-10
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 22-0003

    Superior court erred in affirming trial court's grant of a new trial based on one question for which trial court gave a curative instruction and court found superior court's reliance on Siegal v. Stefanyszyn, 718 A.2d 1274, was misplaced and trial court did not view the question in the context of the entire trial when evaluating appellee's post-trial motion for a new trial. Reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Wharton

    Publication Date: 2021-12-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1444

    As-applied constitutional challenge to PCRA time bar failed where petitioner had not explained why he could not bring his petition within the time bar or under any of the statutory exceptions to the time bar. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Peters v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1416

    Plaintiff appealed the denial of his workers' compensation claim for injuries from an automobile accident occurring after an employer sponsored event at a pub and court found the traveling employee doctrine applied and claimant did not abandon his employment but that there was an unresolved conflict of testimony as to where claimant was coming from at the time of the accident. Vacated and remanded.

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  • In the Interest of T.W.

    Publication Date: 2021-11-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1294

    Appellant challenged the standards by which police officers could remove objects detected during a Terry stop and frisk and court found officer could remove the object if he or she had reasonable suspicion the object was a weapon or, if officer determined the object was not a weapon, if it was immediately apparent by touch that the object was illegal contraband. Affirmed.

  • Firearms Owners Against Crime v. Papenfuse

    Publication Date: 2021-11-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1302

    Lawful firearms owners who resided or worked in or regularly traveled to a municipality had standing to challenge municipal ordinances regulating the possession and use of firearms as the active enforcement of the ordinances gave the owners a substantial and immediate interest in determining the legality and constitutionality of the ordinances. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Brooks v. Ewing Cole, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-18
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1201

    Claim of sovereign immunity was immediately appealable under the collateral order doctrine as sovereign immunity was a protection from suit, not just liability for damages, and therefore would be irreparably lost if public entity were forced to litigate all the way to final judgment to seek appellate review on its immunity claim. Order of the commonwealth court reversed and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Flor

    Publication Date: 2021-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1197

    Petition for post-conviction relief properly dismissed where counsel could not be held deficient for experts' failure to diagnose defendant with intellectual disability, and defendant could not present standalone Atkins claim in a PCRA petition, particularly where his medical expert testimony in support of his claim was found not credible. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Raboin

    Publication Date: 2021-09-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Mundy
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    Case Number: 21-1089

    Admission of forensic interview of child sexual assault victim in its entirety under Rule 106 was erroneous where only certain portions of the interview would have served to correct misleading impressions introduced by defense cross-examination. Judgment of the superior court reversed, case remanded.