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Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Manufacturing
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Anders
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Case Number: 2246 EDA 2023
Personal injury plaintiff appealed the trial court's order sustaining defendant's preliminary objection as to venue and transferring the action to another county. The court concluded that the Superior Court should reverse the court's venue order where plaintiff alleged claims against a corporation that was a successor-in-interest to a company which allegedly designed, manufactured and sold defective equipment in the county in which plaintiff filed suit.
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging | Insurance
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Anders
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Case Number: 130704825
The court urged the Superior Court to affirm its order denying defendant's motion for post-trial relief.
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Evidence
Industry: E-Commerce | State and Local Government | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Dubow
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Case Number: 2886 EDA 2022
Appellant appealed the trial court's judgment of sentence of life imprisonment after his jury conviction for his role in a scheme to commit murder-for-hire. The court held that the trial court did not err in admitting Commonwealth's Google GPS location data evidence where the data did not constitute hearsay and was properly admissible as self-authenticating business records.
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Health Care
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Olson
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Case Number: 1363 MDA 2023
The court affirmed the order granting appellee's motion for judgment on the pleadings in a wrongful termination case on the grounds that appellant's claim was subject to a two-year statute of limitations under 42 Pa. C.S.A. §5501(7).
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Products Liability
Industry: Consumer Products | Retail
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Pratter
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Case Number: 23-1449
Court dismissed product liability claims against various retailers where complaint specifically alleged the retailer from which the product was obtained. Defendants' motions to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.
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Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 554 MDA 2023
Commonwealth appealed from the trial court's order denying its request to present certain evidence in appellee's trial on charges that he murdered his wife. The court reversed in part, holding that the trial court erred in precluding appellant's admission of probative accident reconstruction evidence and competent expert witness evidence regarding the victim's manner of death by drowning.
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Securities Litigation
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Smith
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Case Number: 23-8050
Petitioners sought permission to appeal the district court's order granting class certification in plaintiff's action alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 concerning a drug manufacturer's shares that were dual listed on a domestic and an international stock exchange. The court denied the petition, holding that discretionary interlocutory review was not appropriate where petitioners challenged the reach of Rule 10(b) regarding dual-listed securities, which ultimately was a merits rather than a class-certification
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: Construction
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 002094-CV-2022
The court conducted a non-jury trial in plaintiff homebuyer's action for fraud and related claims against defendant sellers. The court found in favor of plaintiff, holding that defendants, an experienced home renovation contractor and his company, violated the Real Estate Seller Disclosure Law and committed common law fraud by intentionally failing to disclose that the renovated home was previously uninhabitable due to widespread contamination from animal waste.
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Zulick
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Case Number: 7069 CV 2023
Appellant challenged township's decision granting a conditional use in favor of a real property developer. The court held in pertinent part that township board did not err in granting the conditional use approval where it concluded the developer's proposed resort and shopping center, although physically separated, were sufficiently integrated with the use and character of township's overall resort overlay district development area.
Publication Date: 2024-05-31
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Health Care | Retail | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 560 C.D. 2020
Fee review applications were properly denied as prescriptions issued by physicians and filled by a pharmacy that the physicians held an interest in constituted an improper self-referral. Order of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation affirmed.
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