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Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 1230 MDA 2023
Court remanded Post Conviction Relief Act case on appeal where defendant alleged that he had been abandoned by PCRA counsel, which supported allowing the PCRA court to hold a Grazier hearing to determine whether defendant wished to be represented by counsel and appoint new counsel if necessary to allow defendant to pursue ineffective assistance claims against current counsel. Case remanded for further proceedings on Grazier claims. Bradley application for remand denied.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Public Utilities
Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 827 C.D. 2020
Pennsylvania Public Utility commission correctly denied customer's request for accommodation from smart meter requirement due to insufficient evidence of adverse health effects from exposure to meters' RF emissions. Order of the PUC affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: Insurance | Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Patrick
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Case Number: 01466
Appellant title company appealed the court's order granting default judgment in favor of appellee property owner. The court concluded that its decision should be affirmed where appellant failed to timely petition to open default judgment, failed to plead a meritorious defense, and failed to demonstrate any legitimate excuse for its failure to appear prior to entry of default judgment against it.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 720 MDA 2023
Plea counsel was deficient where she failed to investigate defendant's immigration status and thus failed to advise him of the immigration consequences of his guilty plea, where defendant's priority was to return to work to support his family in the U.S. Order of the Post Conviction Relief Act court reversed, conviction vacated.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Construction
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Baxter
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Case Number: 22-333 ERIE
Plaintiff's hostile work environment and wrongful termination claims failed where they were based on his unfounded speculation and subjective belief regarding defendant's racial animus. Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted.
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Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Consumer Protection
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Marston
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Case Number: 22-48-KSM
The parties moved to file redacted copies of certain documents filed in support of the parties' positions on pending motions. The court granted all but one of the parties' proposed redactions, concluding that neither the presumption of public access to judicial filings nor the First Amendment precluded the redactions in light of the confidentiality concerns associated with publicly revealing non-party consumer financial information.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 23-2465
Karen Tucker appealed the district court's dismissal of her legal malpractice lawsuit against her former counsel, Simon & Simon, PC, and its attorneys.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Levin
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Case Number: 01939
Defendants filed post-trial motions after a jury awarded medical malpractice damages in favor of plaintiff. The court denied the motions, holding in pertinent part that defendants' requests for judgment notwithstanding the verdict were waived for improper motion practice and briefing.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
Judge: Judge Linhardt
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Case Number: MD 59-2024
The court granted appellant's appeal of the sheriff's revocation of her license to carry firearms finding that the sheriff failed to demonstrate that he had good cause to revoke appellant's license to carry firearms.
Publication Date: 2024-08-16
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
Judge: Judge Tira
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Case Number: 2023-6857
County Children & Youth Services Agency petitioned for involuntary termination of parental rights of minor child's mother and father. The court granted the petition, concluding that termination of mother's and father's parental rights would best serve the child's needs and welfare where the conditions that led to the child's placement in dependency proceedings, namely neglect by drug-addicted parents, continued to exist and were not likely to be remedied within a reasonable period of time.
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