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  • Hughes v. UGI Storage Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-13
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-1445

    The commonwealth court erred in holding that to be held liable for damages under Pennsylvania's inverse condemnation statute, an entity must be clothed with the power of eminent domain in a general sense and be invested with eminent domain authority specific to the property at issue. The high court remanded for further proceedings.

  • Fox v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-1405

    Venue in defamation action arising from internet communication/publication was proper in any jurisdiction where comments were read by individuals who understood such comments to be defamatory. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Trust Under Will of Ashton

    Publication Date: 2021-10-25
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-1234

    Trust beneficiary entitled to fixed annuity payments had standing from equitable interest in trust corpus to challenge trustee's administration and request for additional compensation. Order of the superior court reversed.

  • Mohn v. Bucks County. Republican Comm.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-11
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-1181

    Court could not exercise judicial review over internal affairs of political party, pursuant to associational freedoms, where such intraparty action did not affect public office or constitute any other state interest. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants, Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0995

    Plaintiffs challenged hospital's withholding of credential committee documents as privileged and court found a hospital credential committee qualified as a "review committee" for purposes of the Peer Review Protection Act, to the extent it undertook peer review, and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act protected from disclosure the responses given by the National Practitioner Data Bank to queries submitted to it. Reversed and vacated.

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  • Commonwealth v. Rawls

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0984

    Law enforcement agents did not violate defendant's constitutional rights when, while issuing him Miranda warnings during an interrogation, they failed to specifically apprise defendant that criminal charges already had been filed against him. The high court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Dixon

    Publication Date: 2021-08-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0956

    The trial court erred in instructing the jury that one of the prerequisites necessary to establish the crime of witness intimidation as a first-degree felony had been fulfilled as that instruction violated defendant's right to a jury trial under the U.S. Constitution as interpreted in Apprendi v. New Jersey. The high court reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Rogers

    Publication Date: 2021-05-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0594

    Sexual assault victims' prostitution convictions were inadmissible under the Rape Shield Law to support defendant's contention that his encounters with the victims were consensual sex-for-money transactions where those underlying convictions involved individuals other than defendant. Order of the superior court affirmed in part and reversed in part.

  • Chester Water Auth. v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Cmty. & Econ. Dev.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-10
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Consulting | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0509

    The commonwealth court erred in concluding that communications exchanged between a commonwealth agency and a private consultant could be shielded from disclosure under the Right-to-Know Law's pre-decisional deliberations exception. The high court reversed in part and affirmed in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Shaw

    Publication Date: 2021-04-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 21-0389

    The superior court did not err in finding that defendant was entitled to redress concerning a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate post-conviction counsel, even though raised for the first time on appeal, as the waiver doctrine did not apply under the unique circumstances at bar. The high court reversed on other grounds and remanded for further proceedings.