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  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kotsopoulos

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 17-1716

    Respondent was suspended for one year for filing an action that had no basis in law and in which he was not acting on behalf of a specific client when he filed a petition for appointment of plenary guardian for someone who had been committed to a state hospital and was incapacitated and falsely alleged that a social worker at the hospital was the petitioner and that he was the attorney for the petitioner but there was no social worker by that name and no one from the hospital authorized respondent to file the petition and respondent a

  • Commonwealth v. Wilt

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Butts
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    Case Number: 17-1641

    The court denied a criminal defendants motion to suppress the results of a blood test, because defendants consent was voluntary even though the form he signed had the criminal penalties blacked out.

  • Fuller v. Lehigh-Northampton Airport Auth.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cosgrove
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    Case Number: 17-1705

    Owner of property subject to a de facto taking not entitled to the greatest sum of delay compensation possible, where the Eminent Domain Code required the property owner to be compensated for the just value of the taken property as close as practical to the date of taking. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Robinson

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Butts
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    Case Number: 17-1502

    Defendants petition for post-conviction relief was not timely, and he was not entitled to retroactive relief based on subsequent case law because defendant had not preserved the issue through direct appeal.

  • Commonwealth v. Tavarez

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Moulton
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    Case Number: 17-1706

    Trial court erred in applying deadly weapon used sentencing enhancement to a burglary conviction, where the crime of burglary was completed when defendant entered a residence with the intent to commit a crime therein, and where defendant did not use the firearm he possessed to gain such entry. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded for resentencing.

  • Commonwealth v. Peralta

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 17-1707

    Trial court did not have discretion to entertain defendants assertion of involuntariness in failure to appear at de novo appeal from conviction in Philadelphia Municipal Court, and did not abuse discretion in affirming judgment of sentence. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Bailey

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Lovecchio
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    Case Number: 17-1630

    A criminal defendant claimed she had ineffective assistance of counsel and that her guilty plea was not made voluntarily, intelligently or knowingly. The court held that defendants claim merited a hearing to determine whether there was a sufficient factual basis to establish her guilt and whether counsel was ineffective.

  • Commonwealth v. Rotola

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 17-1703

    Trial court erred in imposing mandatory restitution where it was not agreed to on the record by a defendant entering a negotiated guilty plea. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded.

  • Junker v. Medical Components, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Goldberg
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    Case Number: 17-1715

    Court declined to decide the issue of invalidity based on indefiniteness at the claim construction stage, determined that the hub was part of the overall claimed design and construed the patent. Claim construed.

  • Gifford v. Dept. of Transp., Bureau of Driver Licensing

    Publication Date: 2017-11-14
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Regulation | Transportation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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    Case Number: 17-1686

    A two-year, seven-month delay in imposition of suspension of operating privilege constituted an extraordinarily extended period of time, where prejudice suffered by licensee for suspension would result in loss of employment. Order of the trial court affirmed.