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Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Construction
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Wecht
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Case Number: 15 EAP 2023
Trial court lacked authority to modify bench trial verdict in a subsequent written sentencing order issued out of open court and out of the parties' presence, as doing so ran afoul of defendant's double jeopardy protections. Judgment of the superior court vacated, case remanded for resentencing.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Automotive
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Lane
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Case Number: 2507 EDA 2023
Appellant appealed the court's order granting appellee's motion to amend the named defendant in appellee's personal injury case. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where appellant improperly sought to pursue an interlocutory appeal, and where appellant had actively participated in the litigation, which was against a business he operated under a fictious name, long before the statute of limitations on appellee's claim expired.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Higgins
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Case Number: 125 CV 2023
Defendants filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's amended writ of revival in an action for collection of a medical services debt. The court dismissed the preliminary objections in pertinent part where a decedent's estate was properly served via the attorney who represented her estate administrator in her estate proceedings.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 299 C.D. 2022
Appellee Philadelphia Community Development Coalition moved to quash appellant's appeal of orders relating to the conservatorship and sale of blighted property and court found appellant did not appeal from any appealable orders. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Wiegand
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Case Number: 2:19-CV-00069-CCW
Parties cross-moved for summary judgment in plaintiff's class/collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act asserting lack of proper tip credit notice and court found defendant's standing argument failed on the law of the case doctrine, a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether the employees appearing on a tip credit notice list received the tip credit notice, summary judgment was granted to plaintiff and class members who received the other information sheet notices and the wi
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Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Education
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Brobson
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Case Number: 7 EAP 2022
Although an at-will employee could assert a tortious interference with business relations claim against third party, a supervisor acting within the scope of their employment did not qualify as a third party. Judgment of the superior court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Dougherty
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Case Number: 4 MAP 2023
Intentional delay in producing driver's license, registration, and proof of insurance during a traffic stop provided sufficient basis for a conviction under the Motor Vehicle Code. Order of the superior court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Labor Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Wolson
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Case Number: 2:23-cv-00164-JDW
Defendant moved for summary judgment in plaintiff's Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act and Pennsylvania Human Relations action over his termination for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination and court found plaintiff provided no evidence that his decision to not get vaccinated was borne of religious belief or that defendant discriminated against him when it fired him. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Construction
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 6857 CIVIL 2023
The court overruled respondent Murray's preliminary objections to claimant Pennsylvania Lawn & Landscaping's amended mechanic's lien complaint.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bowes
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Case Number: 688 WDA 2023
Mother appealed trial court's orders involuntarily terminating her parental rights to her two children. The court affirmed where evidence amply supported the trial court's conclusion that mother's ongoing substance abuse and mental health issues, despite a year of comprehensive support services, meant that termination of her parental rights would best serve her children's developmental, physical, and emotional needs.
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