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Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Election and Political Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 382 M.D. 2024
Failure of several candidates to file affidavits did not affect the validity of the candidacy of individuals seeking election to other offices who had submitted their candidate affidavits. Petition to strike denied in part and dismissed as moot in part.
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Civil Procedure
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
Judge: Judge Saltz
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Case Number: 2022-17987
The court urged the Superior Court to dismiss plaintiff's appeal of the court's order denying plaintiff's motion for recusal for want of appellate jurisdiction and noted that its decision on the recusal motion was based on established principles of law.
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Higgins
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Case Number: 0037 CV 2023
The court denied appellants' appeal of the Zoning Board's decision affirming an enforcement notice directing appellants to cease using their property as a multi-family dwelling in an "A" zoning district.
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: Federal Government | Legal Services
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Bibas
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Case Number: 23-2637
ALJ properly denied appellant's claim for Social Security disability benefits and found he could do light work because 20 C.F.R. §404.1520c(c) complied with the statute by requiring ALJs to explain their dispositive reasons and there was substantial evidence to support the ALJ's decision about how much weight to give each medical opinion. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: E-Commerce | Insurance | Transportation
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Pappert
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Case Number: 24-1673
Defendant rideshare company moved to dismiss plaintiff driver's complaint alleging breach of contract for failure to provide uninsured motorist coverage. The court denied the motion, holding that plaintiff plausibly alleged that defendant's ambiguous driver service contract incorporated a promise of uninsured motorist coverage as set out in defendant's separate Driver Guidebook.
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Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Industry: E-Commerce | Legal Services
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Slomsky
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Case Number: 24-108
Court declined to dismiss complaint challenging trademark where there was a factual dispute regarding the validity of defendant's affidavit to establish the incontestability of its registered trademark. Defendant's motion to dismiss denied.
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 2320 EDA 2023
Appellant appealed the trial court's order dismissing his petition under the Post Conviction Relief Act. The court affirmed, holding that the PCRA court erred by considering the merits of appellant's fatally untimely ineffectiveness of counsel claims. The court held further that the PCRA court properly denied appellant's claim seeking a new trial on the basis of after-acquired evidence where appellant failed to show that the evidence, consisting of unrelated disciplinary action against a testifying police officer, would likely result
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 2710 EDA 2022
Negligence verdict against employer in asbestos exposure case was not against weight of evidence where plaintiff presented sufficient evidence of exposure and employers had a heightened duty to protect employees from known workplace hazards. Orders of the trial court affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Expert Witnesses
Industry: Automotive | Construction | Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Motto
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Case Number: 10318 of 2021, C.A.
Defendants sought reconsideration of the court's order precluding their tendered expert testimony regarding the source of defects in a truck engine that plaintiff had rebuilt. The court denied the motion, holding that defendants could not introduce expert opinion testimony regarding defects in the rebuilt truck engine where their expert's report did not attribute the defects to plaintiff's work and stated further that no proper diagnosis of the engine could be made without disassembling the unit, which had not been done.
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Kunselman
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Case Number: 862 WDA 2023
Weight of evidence supported trial court's rejection of will where it discredited fact witness evidence regarding execution of the purported will, allowing the trial court to rely on expert testimony opining that the signature was a forgery. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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