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  • Gregory v. Pennsylvania State Police

    Publication Date: 2018-05-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0577

    Petitioner was entitled to summary relief on the count in his petition asserting that applying SORNA to him would violate the ex post facto clauses of the United States and Pennsylvanias constitutions because petitioner committed his crimes and entered his plea of nolo contendere long before SORNA went into effect and when the registration requirements for attempted rape and rape were much less onerous. Petition granted.

  • Commonwealth of Pa. v. President, United States of Am.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Health Care Law | Regulation
    Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Hardiman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0538

    Intervention as of right in case involving religious exemption from ACA contraceptive mandate permitted where intervenor had significant interest as plaintiff in underlying case leading to current exemption and was not adequately represented by federal government. Order of the district court reversed.

  • Keystone ReLeaf LLC v. Dept of Health

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Regulation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0518

    Petitioner failed to exhaust its administrative remedies in its challenge to the department of healths processing of dispensary permit ap-plications because petitioner did not present a facial constitutional challenge to the act or temporary regulations so the constitutional exception to the doctrine of exhaustion of remedies did not apply and petitioner did not show that the departments administrative remedy was inadequate. Petition dismissed.

  • In re: Estate of John Norman

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0465

    The court did not base its decision to deny movant guardianship of her incapacitated father on her decade-old attorney disciplinary record, thought her disciplinary record was relevant to its task of appointing an appropriate guardian who would act in her fathers best interests. The court denied movants motion for reconsideration.

  • Ferraro v. Temple Univ.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0544

    Trial court properly found that terminated managers age discrimination and retaliation claims failed because she did not meet her burden of proof to show discrimination, manager confused the second and third steps of the framework in challenging trial courts comment about the relevance of the credibility of employers witnesses and there was no suggestive temporal proximity between her termination and the filing of her internal age discrimination complaint. Affirmed.

  • Nelson v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Padova
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0547

    The court denied defendants motion to dismiss plaintiffs action seeking arbitration over the dissolution of law firm because plaintiff suffi-ciently alleged an injury in fact and his claims plausibly fell within the firms operating agreement but plaintiffs motion to compel arbitration was premature. Motions denied

  • Konyk v. Pa. State Police

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0540

    Commonwealth not contractually-bound to federal plea agreement, with respect to state sex offender registration requirements, under third-party beneficiary or implied contract theories. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Shannon

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0542

    The PCRA court properly dismissed appellants PCRA petition and properly denied his motion for the recusal of the entire county bench based on racially offensive emails sent to the members of the county criminal justice system because the purportedly newly-discovered evidence did not support his claim of bias, the judge in appellants case did not receive the offensive email and there was nothing to show the judge was unfair or incompetent to consider appellants PCRA petition. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Delgros

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0535

    Criminal defendant entitled to raise ineffective assistance of counsel claims in post-trial motions where otherwise ineligible to assert such claims on PCRA review. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • Cardiology Care for Children Inc. v. Ravi

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Damages | Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Leeson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0548

    Breach of employment contract claim not dismissed where employees statement that he intended to leave sooner than later permitted a reasonable inference of an anticipatory repudiation or breach. Motion to dismiss denied in part and granted in part.