• 22nd St. Auto Ctr. v. PennDOT, Bureau of Motor Vehicles

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Automotive | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1326 C.D. 2022

    Court remanded appeal of vehicle safety inspection licenses where trial court made new factual findings that could support modifying DOT's penalty and where the trial court failed to expressly find whether misrepresentations on inspection form were fraudulent or simply the product of carelessness. Orders of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Kleiner v. Johnson & Johnson

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Anders
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 170102505

    Product liability plaintiffs appealed the court's order denying their motion for post-trial relief. The court held that it properly limited or struck testimony by two of plaintiffs' experts where one expert relied upon a statistical analysis of a non-testifying colleague and the other provided a supplemental opinion report a mere month before trial.

  • Vertex, Inc. v. Avalara, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: E-Commerce | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Younge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-cv-0315-JMY

    The court denied defendant's partial motion for judgment on the pleadings after finding that plaintiff adequately pled its claims for tortious interference with contractual relations and unfair competition.

  • Commonwealth v. Wright

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 124 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence entered after his jury conviction on charges of kidnap to facilitate a felony, robbery, and making terrorist threats. The court affirmed, holding that appellant's conviction was not against the weight of the evidence where his victim identified him by his eyes and other evidence linked him to the crimes charged. The court held further that the victim's voice identification of appellant was admissible at trial despite the fact that police played only a single voice sample for th

  • Coco v. Dear

    Publication Date: 2024-04-22
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Restrepo
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-1787

    Plaintiff raised genuine issues of material fact as to whether officers had probable cause to arrest where there was conflicting evidence regarding whether plaintiff had offensively struck one officer's police horse.

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  • Int'l Transport Mgmt. Corp. v. Brooks Fitch Apparel Group LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Fuentes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-1256

    Defendants appealed the adverse judgment entered by the district court.

  • Hamilton Twp. v. Gimadeyev

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Wood
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 7844 CV 2022

    The court granted defendant's motion for reconsideration of its order denying defendant's motion to open a default judgment.

  • Amres Corp. v. Ayzenberg

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Accounting
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-01224 (Consolidated)

    Certain parties appealed the court's decision allowing a certified public accountant, who served as a court-appointed forensic accounting expert in the parties' litigation, to seek payment of his expert fees within the parties' litigation rather than filing a separate action. The court requested that its decision be affirmed where the parties had clearly agreed to split the cost of the appointed expert that the parties ultimately required to value the disputed multimillion dollar assets involved in the complex commercial case.

  • Nigon v. Jewell

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 671 WDA 2023

    Trial court erred in granting summary judgment to primary care physician and his general partner in medical negligence case and court found estate's experts opined primary care physician deviated from the standard of care in treating patient initially in 2017, before the 2019 surgery that led to his death, and trial court erred by concluding that partnerships involving physicians had to be categorically excluded from application of partnership law. Reversed.

  • Commonwealth v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 261 MDA 2023

    Evidence was sufficient to support witness intimidation conviction where witness testified that appellant had, on multiple occasions, contacted her in violation of his bail conditions to ask her to change her testimony or not testify at trial. Judgment of sentence affirmed.