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  • Ford v. Oliver

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Energy | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Solano
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    Case Number: 17-1907

    Trial court properly dismissed appellants complaint asserting that a 2001 deed was void ab initio and asserting malpractice, negligence and fraud because the deed was not forged, appellants signed a deed without knowing its contents and did not act with reasonable diligence to discover what they had signed when they took no action for 14 years. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Sperber

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 17-1901

    Motion to suppress evidence from warrantless search properly denied where parole officers had reasonable suspicion to search parolees person and vehicle due to corroborated tip that parolee possessed an internet-capable smartphone in violation of his parole, and where parolee expressly consented to search. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Tek Good Luck, Inc. v. Certain Underwriters of Lloyds of London et al

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Insurance
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Djerassi
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    Case Number: 17-1858

    The defendant insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify plaintiff in an underlying personal injury action arising out of an assault and battery on plaintiffs premises where plaintiffs insurance policy excluded from coverage any assault and/or battery committed by any person whatsoever on the premises, even where styled as a negligence claim. The court granted the defendant insurer summary judgment.

  • Wintersteen v. Truck Ins. Exch.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas
    Judge: Judge Djerassi
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    Case Number: 17-1870

    The court granted plaintiffs motion for summary judgment against an insurer in this case involving replacement cost coverage, because Pennsylvania law required the insurer to include general contractor overhead and profit in actual cash value payments when use of a general contractor was reasonably likely to be necessary in repairing damages to a home.

  • Commonwealth v. Felder

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 17-1897

    The trial court properly convicted defendant of contempt for violating a protection from abuse order where the evidence supported a finding that his intentional actions in twisting his wifes fingers to the point of injury rose to the level of abuse. The court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.

  • WS v. CH

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas
    Judge: Judge Butts
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    Case Number: 17-1879

    A defendant subject to a Protection from Abuse order was guilty of indirect criminal contempt where he was aware that a firearm was stored in an outbuilding to which he had access.

  • Monroe Land Inv.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas
    Judge: Judge Anders
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    Case Number: 17-1864

    A zoning board abused its discretion when it denied an application based on a special exception, because the applicant provided expert testimony to support its proposed use, and objectors relied solely on lay opinions.

  • Commonwealth v. Akhmedov

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ransom
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    Case Number: 17-1896

    While defendant demonstrated recklessness in driving at an excessive rate during a drag race, there was no evidence of the sustained, purposeful recklessness necessary to prove a knowing and conscious disregard that death or serious bodily injury was reasonably certain to occur necessary to support his four convictions for murder in the third degree. The appellate court reversed defendants convictions in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Pennix

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Solano
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    Case Number: 17-1898

    The record did not support defendants conviction for disorderly conduct based on her angry use of the f-word or her conviction for possession of a dangerous weapon in a court facility, as her pocketknife did not constitute a dangerous weapon for purposes of 18 Pa.C.S. §913(a)(1). The appellate court vacated defendants judgment of sentence.

  • In re Estate of Pancari

    Publication Date: 2018-01-09
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Employment Litigation | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Brobson
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    Case Number: 17-1910

    Trial court properly refused to compel police pension fund to pay survivors benefits to appellant after Orphans Court ruled that she was deceaseds common-law wife because the fund plan mandated exhaustion of contractual remedies, appellant did not appeal the funds prior adjudication that she did not prove the marriage and the plan decision was final and binding.