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Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Distribution and Wholesale | Manufacturing
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Baylson
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Case Number: 24-2087
Defendants moved to dismiss certain counts of plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a claim. The court denied the motion, holding that plaintiff's claims for conversion, tortious interference with business relations, and defamation and commercial trade disparagement were not precluded by the gist of the action doctrine where plaintiff plausibly alleged violations of broader social duties not grounded in the parties' warehousing and shipping agreement.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge McHugh
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Case Number: CP-09-CR-0001892-2023
Commonwealth appealed the court's ruling granting appellee's motion to suppress his arrest and the evidence recovered thereafter. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed, holding that suppression of appellee's arrest was required where stipulations of counsel contradicted subsequent officer testimony regarding the source of information that led to appellee's warrantless arrest during a traffic stop.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Mundy
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Case Number: 15 EM 2022
Grand jury report did not constitute a "report" eligible for publication where it failed to specifically identify "unlawful activity" committed by named, unindicted individuals, all of whom were entitled to notice and an opportunity to be heard before any publication of a grand jury report could occur. Order of the supervising judge vacated, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Transportation
Industry: Mining and Resources | State and Local Government | Transportation
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 355 C.D. 2023
Failure to complete road repairs by the deadline in the parties' settlement without force majeure justification entitled municipality the discretion to decline to enter an excess maintenance agreement. Order of the trial court reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bowes
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Case Number: 2638 EDA 2023
Appellant appealed from the denial of his first Post Conviction Relief Act petition. The court affirmed, holding in pertinent part that petitioner was ineligible for PCRA relief where he claimed ineffective assistance of PCRA counsel regarding a conviction for which the court previously vacated petitioner's sentence on direct appeal.
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Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Federal Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Kearney
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Case Number: 23-4283
Court vacated approval for creation of berthing and turning basin for new port where Army Corps of Engineers failed to adequately consider risk to traffic and navigation in river main channel where the basin would be located and failed to require a letter of no objection from the sole non-federal sponsor of the project to deepen the channel. Order of the Army Corps of Engineers vacated.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Baylson
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Case Number: 24-3254
Court declined to dismiss account holder's fraudulent transfers claim where there was insufficient evidence to prove holder had approved a loan transfer where the scammer called her from the financial institution's customer service line. Defendant's motion to dismiss denied in part and granted in part.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Real Estate
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Leeson
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Case Number: 5:24-cv-0464
Plaintiff moved for default judgment on her action against defendants for breach of contract. The court granted the motion, holding that plaintiff lender was entitled to entry of default judgment in her favor where defendants, a corporate borrower and an individual guarantor, had failed to answer or otherwise defend her properly-served action alleging breach of a promissory note.
Publication Date: 2024-11-13
Practice Area: Labor Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Bibas
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Case Number: 24-1007
Plaintiff appealed the district court's decision granting summary judgment in favor of defendants Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and Port Authority Trans-Hudson.
Publication Date: 2024-11-11
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Krause
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Case Number: 23-3241
Appellant appealed the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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