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Publication Date: 2018-07-10 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Superior Court Judge:Judge Stevens Attorneys:For plaintiff: for defendant: Case Number: 18-0807
Defendant not entitled to relief for alleged prosecutorial misconduct during closing arguments where defendant failed to request curative instructions or a mistrial before the trial court. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
A school district employee did not receive proper notice from the school board regarding the nature of the charges against him, depriving him of due process. The court concluded the employee was entitled to back pay and benefits relating to the period of time he was on administrative leave.
Plaintiffs failed to establish the critical "state actor" element of their claims for relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 where they alleged that defendants wrongfully employed the Pennsylvania rules for execution on a judgment for possession with the help of a county sheriff's office. The court granted in part defendants' motion for summary judgment.
School policy permitting transgender students to use common privacy facilities consistent with their gender identities did not violate constitutional, Title IX, or state law rights of cisgender students who shared those facilities. Order of the district court affirmed.
Superior court erred in imposing a duty on staffing agency but correctly imposed duty on hospital, in negligence action brought by patients infected with hepatitis C by technician's theft of a controlled substance, refiling the syringes with saline and placing the contaminated syringes where they could be used to infect patients, because the CSA imposed a duty on hospital but not on agency to report the thefts to the DEA. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
An Act 111 arbitrator who resolved a grievance between the City of Pittsburgh and the union representing the City's police personnel exceeded her authority when she fashioned a remedy for officers' loss of "pass days" while acknowledging that such a remedy did not exist in the applicable collective bargaining agreement. The appellate court affirmed the trial court's order.
Plaintiff was not entitled to damages or injunctive relief where he failed to show that the municipality improperly made repairs which caused storm water to flow onto plaintiff's property. The court entered a verdict in defendant's favor.
The court granted summary judgment in favor of defendants in this slip and fall premises liability case, because plaintiff failed to show the fall occurred due to a dangerous condition on the floor.
Publication Date: 2018-07-10 Practice Area:Real Estate Industry: Court:Superior Court Judge:Judge Nichols Attorneys:For plaintiff: for defendant: Case Number: 18-0811
Trial court properly awarded damages to buyer in his action based on seller's failure to provide a RESDL disclosure statement in a house sale. Vacated and remanded.
While father demonstrated love for his three children, the record established that he failed to perform his parental duties for a period of at least six months immediately preceding the filing of a petition to terminate parental rights during father's incarceration and concurrent lack of effort to contact or care for the children. The court granted a petition to involuntarily terminate father's parental rights.