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Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 18 EDA 2023
Trial court properly granted summary judgment in favor of insurer in appellant's action for UIM coverage and court found appellant's car policy's household exclusion was valid and enforceable, UIM coverage in her mother's car's policy, which she was driving at the time of the accident, was the only UIM coverage applicable and the coordination of benefits clause had no effect. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Labor Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Scott
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Case Number: 23-0263
Court erred in dismissing religious failure to accommodate claim where employee presented prima facie evidence that she had a religiously connected, sincerely held objection to receiving COVID-19 vaccines. Defendant's motion for summary judgment denied in part and granted in part.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Olson
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Case Number: 2510 EDA 2022
Trial court should have denied suppression motion where totality of circumstances, including the fact that the subject vehicle was registered to someone whom defendant failed to explain his connection to, indicated that defendant lacked a privacy interest in the vehicle and thus defendant failed to bear his burden to prove that he had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
Industry: Insurance
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
Judge: Judge Rogers
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Case Number: 2017-09856
The court issued its decision on damages in a suit between an injured motorist and her insurance company that found the insurance company acted in bad faith, assessed attorneys' fees based on a contingency agreement and awarded punitive damages.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 7623 CV 2022
Appellant landowner appealed township's denial of its special exception application to construct a warehouse. The court affirmed where appellant's proposed use for its property was as a warehouse building that would be employed as a distribution center/truck terminal, which was not a permitted use.
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Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Surrick
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Case Number: 23-460
Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's employment discrimination complaint. The court granted in part and denied in part defendant's motion, concluding in pertinent part that plaintiff stated a claim for sexual orientation discrimination in violation of federal and state law, but failed to allege claims for discrimination on the basis of sex or disability.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Class Actions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Pappert
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Case Number: 204318
Plaintiffs moved for approval of the settlement in plaintiffs' class action asserting defendant violated Pennsylvania law by using deficient disclosure notices and practices in repossessing plaintiffs' vehicles and court found the Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(e)(2) and Girsh factors supported the settlement, the distribution was fair, reasonable and adequate as was the attorney fee and named plaintiff incentive awards. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Construction | Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge Mellon
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Case Number: 2021-00887
The court filed a §1925(a) opinion urging the denial of defendant's post-trial motion of the court's order finding defendant liable for breaching an exclusive requirements contract.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 65 MAP 2022
Court vacated commonwealth court's order dismissing appellant's petition and its motion for summary relief in its action seeking to have its elders covered by the clergyman privilege as to mandatory reporting of child sex abuse, because commonwealth court's determinations that appellant did not have standing and that a grant of declaratory relief would not terminate the controversy violated the coordinate jurisdiction rule. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
Judge: Judge Saltz
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Case Number: 2019-18305
The court, in a §1925(a) opinion, provided justification for its award of summary judgment to Fannie Mae and a judgment for possession after an ejectment proceeding that followed a residential foreclosure case.
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