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Publication Date: 2024-10-11
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 808 CAP
Appellant appealed the dismissal of his Post Conviction Relief Act petition after he was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding that appellant failed to demonstrate intentional or reckless prosecutorial misconduct where the prosecutor in his case relied on a documentary exhibit to refresh a testifying police officer's memory regarding a fact later contradicted by other police officers.
Publication Date: 2024-10-11
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
Judge: Judge Saltz
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Case Number: 2022-05136
Plaintiff and defendant filed cross-motions for summary judgment in plaintiff's action alleging equitable subrogation and related claims regarding the purchase and sale of a residence encumbered by a mortgage. The court granted summary judgment in favor of defendant where plaintiff bought the property subject to defendant's prior mortgage and thus assumed primary responsibility for the mortgage to the extent of plaintiff's interest in the property.
Publication Date: 2024-10-11
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
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Case Number: 2022 CV 3943
Medical malpractice plaintiffs filed a motion in limine to exclude the testimony of certain defense expert witnesses. The court granted the motion in part and denied it in part, holding that defendants' corporate liability expert witness would be prohibited from testifying that hospitals were inundated with COVID patients at the time a plaintiff was admitted where the pandemic was unrelated to the care involved in plaintiffs' case.
Publication Date: 2024-10-11
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Health Care | Insurance
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Brobson
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Case Number: 11 WAP 2023
Insured was not entitled to business income or extra expense losses resulting from partial shutdowns in response to government orders during COVID pandemic as policies required physical alteration of the property. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2024-10-11
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Construction
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Wolson
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Case Number: 2:23-cv-02880-JDW
Court lacked personal jurisdiction over company that allegedly misappropriated domestic business's materials and used them to compete in another state. Defendant's motion to dismiss granted.
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Publication Date: 2024-10-11
Practice Area: Tax
Industry: Education | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice McCaffery
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Case Number: 99 MAP 2022
Property owner was not entitled to nunc pro tunc relief where it had an opportunity to seek retroactive application of tax-exempt status by appealing the decision conferring such status. Order of the Commonwealth Court reversed, judgment of the trial court reinstated.
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Jordan
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Case Number: 21-2639
Appellant appealed his conviction, where he was sentenced as a career offender for his role in a robbery.
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Krause
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Case Number: 23-2631
District court erred in interpreting agency liability under Delaware law, where a parent could incur agency liability for a subsidiary's wrongful acts post-acquisition.
Publication Date: 2024-10-07
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 23-2802
Appellant appealed the dismissal of his amended complaints.
Publication Date: 2024-10-07
Practice Area: Judges
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 23-2322
Appellant appealed orders in two of his district court cases, challenging dismissals based on judicial immunity.
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