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  • Fusco v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom | Transportation
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Goldberg
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    Case Number: 18-0944

    Plaintiff's claims against Uber Technologies Inc. for alleged negligent hiring, retention and supervision of a driver who attacked the plaintiff customer did not survive a motion for summary judgment where the complaint did not allege any instances of past misconduct by the offending driver. The court granted in part plaintiff's motion for summary judgment with leave to amend.

  • Commonwealth v. Butler

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McLaughlin
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    Case Number: 18-0943

    The trial court properly found that police demonstrated reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot based in part on information received from an informant who implicated himself in criminal activity when he told police he would drive his son to purchase heroin from two individuals. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • In re Primary Election of May 15, 2018

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Patrick
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    Case Number: 18-0938

    The court lacked jurisdiction to entertain an election contest, because petitioner failed to file a bond within the time provided under the statute. Additionally, petitioner's appeal was untimely.

  • Morgan v. Morgan

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 18-0952

    Trial court abused its discretion in failing to apply unclean hands doctrine to deny husband's petition to modify alimony where husband, an attorney, over the course of several years willfully submitted false documentation and testimony concerning his income. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Davis v. Abington Mem'l Hosp. et al

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Padilla
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    Case Number: 18-0933

    The court rejected defendants' argument that it was permanently divested of subject matter jurisdiction of plaintiffs' claims by operation of law where a district court denied plaintiffs' initial motion to remand because the district court's ruling on preemption was not substantive in nature and was ultimately rendered moot. The court recommended affirmance of its order granting plaintiffs' motion to reinstate.

  • In Re: Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Public Records
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0945

    The high court held that substantial portions of a grand jury's report on alleged child sexual abuse by individuals associated with the Pennsylvania Dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church should be released to the public but that the report should be redacted to protect the identities of petitioners/appellants, who were not afforded an opportunity to appear before the grand jury. The high court issued interim relief.

  • Laurel Rd. Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. v. Freas

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Non-Profit | Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0948

    Uniform Planned Community Act did not preclude imposition of common law fiduciary duties upon the community's developers and declarants of the community's association. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Wang v. Attorney Gen. of the U.S.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Nygaard
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    Case Number: 18-0959

    Board of immigration appeal's decision that petitioner was convicted of an aggravated felony was remanded because petitioner was convicted of making a false report in violation of 7 U.S.C. §6(b(a)(1)(B) and §13(a)(2). Remanded.

  • Cholewka v. Gelso

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law | Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Ott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0942

    One possessor of land owes no duty of care to another possessor of land under premises liability principles; thus, the trial court did not err in finding that the additional defendant, who leased property together with the plaintiffs, owed no duty of care to them. The appellate court affirmed in part.

  • Mauthe v. Optum, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Advertising
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0950

    Unsolicited fax requesting a recipient verify his or her information in the sender's database did not constitute an advertisement or a pretext for advertisement in violation of the TCPA because the fax did not promote the commercial availability of goods or services to the recipient or public. Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted.