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  • Miles v. Miles

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Powell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 01837

    Defendant appealed the court's order finding in favor of plaintiff and against defendant in plaintiff's action to eject defendant from residential property. The court concluded that its decision should be affirmed where defendant claimed the existence of a written "rent" agreement, but evidence adduced at trial demonstrated that the parties never arrived at a complete agreement.

  • Sechrist v. Danish

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
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    Case Number: 941 C.D. 2022

    Trial court erred in finding a private road because there was no allegation in the complaint or any evidence in the record demonstrating that the road was ever laid out and opened as a private road pursuant to the Private Road Act and use alone did not establish a private road or create an easement. Reversed.

  • Taylor v. Tsering

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    Case Number: 6452 CIVIL 2023

    Respondents filed preliminary objections to claimant's mechanic's lien. The court sustained the majority of respondents' preliminary objections, including their preliminary objection that claimant's claim was not timely filed, and dismissed the claim.

  • Howarth v. Falls Twp.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
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    Case Number: 447 C.D. 2021

    Trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of township in appellant's action over storm water discharge from a pipe onto appellant's property because court found township did not refute appellant's evidence the new pipe increased the volume of water flowing onto the property, the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act did not immunize township and there was a material question of fact as to plaintiff's common law negligence claim. Reversed.

  • Fini v. Park Place of E. Bradford Cmty. Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
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    Case Number: 16 C.D. 2023

    Planned Community Act entitled association to assess its legal fees incurred in attempting to enforce parking regulations upon unit owners. Order of the trial court affirmed.

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  • Commonwealth v. Virtus Capital Advisors LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Consulting | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McHugh
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    Case Number: 2022-06214

    The court justified its order overruling condemnee Virtus Capital Advisor's preliminary objections to condemnor PennDOT's declaration of taking under the Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa.C.S. §101, et seq.

  • ETD Group, L.L.C. v. Factor

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | Transportation
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2021-06673

    In a §1925(a) opinion, the court urged that defendant's appeal be dismissed and the court's decision denying a motion for post-trial relief and granting specific performance to plaintiff ETD Group on its third contract for the purchase of defendant's three lots of business property be affirmed.

  • Foresta v. Airbnb, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: E-Commerce | Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Murphy
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    Case Number: 23-1379

    Defendant moved to dismiss and/or to compel arbitration in plaintiff's action for damages and lost rental income after guest barricaded himself in plaintiff's apartment and court found Airbnb purposefully availed itself of doing business in Pennsylvania," the arbitration clause was valid and it properly delegated questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator. Motion granted in part and denied in part.

  • Saunders v. Lina Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Cunningham
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    Case Number: 210702537

    In this case involving adverse possession of land fenced in by appellee and her late husband to make a side yard in 1988, the court asked the Superior Court to affirm its ruling in favor of appellee.

  • Kucherezhko v. Varfolomeev

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Higgins
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    Case Number: 1262 CV 2022

    Plaintiff filed suit for partition of real property jointly owned with defendant pursuant to a business partnership. The court authorized plaintiff to purchase defendant's one-half interest in the property at a price that reflected defendant's equity minus credits in favor of plaintiff for various expenses and costs paid.