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Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 515 WDA 2023
Commonwealth appealed the trial court's order denying its request to impanel a death-qualified jury. The court reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court acted outside its legal authority in usurping Commonwealth's ability to seek the death penalty by prohibiting the parties from proffering voir dire questions necessary to death-qualify a jury, and by ruling that there would be no jury deliberations regarding sentencing in a defendant's criminal homicide trial.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Tax
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 221 C.D. 2023
Trial court erred in finding tax claim bureau took reasonable efforts to locate property owner by relying on bureau's statutory publication requirement and where the bureau failed to follow all statutorily listed methods and instead focused on the property owner's failure to update her registered address. Order of the trial court reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Cox
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Case Number: 903 OF 2020
Defendant sought post-trial relief after his conviction on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. The court denied defendant's motion, holding in pertinent part that Commonwealth was properly allowed to amend its information to add the charge of criminal conspiracy on the eve of trial where defendant was afforded the opportunity to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus as a means of challenging the evidence in support of the newly-filed charge.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Personal Injury
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Dougherty
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Case Number: 104 MAP 2022
Lower courts erred in enjoining property owner from posting signs protesting neighbor's allegedly racist behavior where posting the signs constituted pure speech as it was motivated in part by highlighting the community effects of racism, and thus an injunction constituted an impermissible prior restraint on speech. Order of the superior court vacated in part.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 1498 C.D. 2022
Trial court erred in granting civil forfeiture of defendant's vehicle where Commonwealth presented no evidence that defendant regularly used the vehicle as part of his drug transactions to support finding that the vehicle was an instrumentality of defendant's criminal activity. Order of the trial court reversed.
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Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 1734 EDA 2022
Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence on his jury conviction of rape and related crimes. The court affirmed, holding in pertinent part that the trial court did not violate appellant's rights by posing three brief questions to his crime victim at trial in order to clarify her responses to a question posed by Commonwealth.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Coyle
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Case Number: 02491
In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court defended its order denying defendants' petition to set aside a sheriff's sale of their real property after it was purchased by Chase Capital One, LLC and resold to JWMZ Realty, LLC as a reasonable exercise of the court's discretion. After defendants defaulted in payment, plaintiff filed a Complaint with Notice to Defend to initiate the mortgage foreclosure that was properly served on defendants. There were several attempts to hold conciliation program conferences for which defendants were served wi
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 1440 C.D. 2021
Where appellant did not admit to providing an insufficient breath sample and there was no evidence regarding the breath test from the administering officer, the trial court erred in concluding that appellant had refused breath testing. Order of the trial court vacated and remanded.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
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Case Number: 2024 CV 3773
Plaintiff's amended petition to approve a wrongful death proposed settlement was approved but a petition to seal the judicial record was denied.
Publication Date: 2024-09-06
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Construction
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 2982 EDA 2022
Trial court properly awarded counsel fees to appellee after appellants' confession of judgment complaint was dismissed because appellants lacked a sufficient basis in law or fact to commence the action and the sole purpose of the action was to cause annoyance to appellee. Affirmed.
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