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Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Smith
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Case Number: 23-1836
The court reversed the order of the district court dismissing a count of appellee's indictment for an implied "ruse exception" to the Speedy Trial Act, finding that the STA contains no implied ruse exception at least for a prosecution first initiated in state court.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Murray
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Case Number: 690 WDA 2020
New precedent upholding the validity of "regular use" exclusion in underinsured motorist policies supported trial court's judgment for insurer following accident where insured was injured while operating a regularly-used, employer-owned work vehicle. Judgment of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
Industry: E-Commerce
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Slomsky
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Case Number: 23-3272
Defendants moved to compel arbitration and stay litigation pursuant to a contractual arbitration clause. The court granted the motion, holding that plaintiffs' claims alleging unlawful disclosure of confidential tax return information were subject to contractual arbitration under the binding and enforceable arbitration provision contained in defendants' online services agreement.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
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Case Number: 23-454
The court denied defendants' motion to suppress evidence including cell phone tower records obtained in the vicinity of their heist of a shipment of over $230,000 worth of newly minted dimes.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Construction
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
Judge: Judge Cohen
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Case Number: 2021-C-1853
Plaintiff appealed the court's order granting summary judgment to defendant salvage yard owner on plaintiff's personal injury claims. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where plaintiff offered no causation expert testimony to support his allegation that he was shocked by electricity emanating from defendant's electric fence. The court concluded further that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur did not apply because plaintiff failed to eliminate other potential causes of his injury apart from defendant's electric fence.
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Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Copyrights
Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing | Retail
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Murphy
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Case Number: 22-3742
Court dismissed copyright infringement claims relating to apparel/accessory designs where the accused works were sufficiently visually distinct from the protected works. Defendants' motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Legal Services | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Baylson
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Case Number: 24-1456
Defendant employer moved to dismiss plaintiff's discriminatory termination suit for failure to state a claim. The court granted in part and denied in part defendant's motion, holding in pertinent part that plaintiff's Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim survived dismissal where it stated a viable claim by alleging as facts that plaintiff was over the age of forty, was qualified for the job from which he was terminated, and his replacement was a person of significantly younger age.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Government
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
Judge: Judge Saltz
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Case Number: 2024-00294
The court sustained plaintiff's appeal after an evidentiary hearing and filed this §1925(a) opinion after PennDOT appealed to the Commonwealth Court.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Chung
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Case Number: 23-1081
Worker could assert adverse employment action based on a denial of accommodation that caused "some harm" to the conditions of employment, although that harm did not need to rise to the level of "serious and tangible." Judgment of the district court affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Mehalchick
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Case Number: 1:22-CV-00868
Court denied prison officials' motion for summary judgment where there were genuine issues of material fact over whether officials had taken actions to retaliate against plaintiff's stated intention to file grievances. Defendants' motion for summary judgment denied.
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