• Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC v. Rivers

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 001402-CV-2020

    Plaintiff sought summary judgment in its action to eject defendant from a residential lot after a mortgage foreclosure. The court denied plaintiff's summary judgment motion where fact issues remained as to whether defendant occupied only the single lot identified and claimed by plaintiff, or instead resided upon multiple lots that might be joined and inseparable.

  • Kalch v. McDougle

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 7907 CIVIL 2023

    Defendant real estate brokerage and real estate agent filed preliminary objections to plaintiff homebuyers' amended complaint. The court overruled the preliminary objections, holding that defendants could not avoid plaintiffs' fraud and related claims at the preliminary objection stage where the crux of plaintiffs' claims was that all named defendants had conspired to conceal the deteriorated condition of the home that plaintiffs purchased.

  • Hicks v. DEPG Stroud Assoc., III, LP

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 807 CIVIL 2021

    Defendants sought summary judgment in plaintiff's slip and fall premises liability case. The court denied defendants' summary judgment motions, concluding that fact issues existed regarding negligence and constructive notice on the part of the property owner and its landscaping company where the landscaper had piled snow on a paved parking area, potentially leading to melting and re-freezing that led to plaintiff's fall on a patch of black ice.

  • Custodio v. Mabrantes, LLC

    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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    for defendant:

    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.

  • Payneless Enter. LLC v. K&T Home Renovations LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    Case Number: 7714 CIVIL 2023

    Plaintiff filed a preliminary objection to defendants' second amended answer and counterclaim. The court sustained the preliminary objection and struck defendants' counterclaim for unjust enrichment where defendants asserted that plaintiff was not entitled to any recovery, yet defendants admitted making payment to plaintiff for work performed and completed.

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  • Xie v. Xie

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 004957-CV-2015

    Plaintiff sought partition of real property that she owned with defendant. The court ordered the property partitioned, calculated the amounts owed between the parties in light of credits based upon amounts paid and the property's fair rental value for pertinent periods, and set out proper disbursement amounts for any sale proceeds, depending upon the parties' intentions for the property's final disposition.

  • Legions v. Abdurasulov

    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 4545 CIVIL 2022

    Defendant, as the owner of a semi-trailer mistakenly placed in use by a truck driver, sought summary judgment in a personal injury suit brought by a plaintiff who was injured in a subsequent accident involving the trailer. The court granted the motion, holding that defendant bore no vicarious liability for the truck driver's alleged negligence where defendant's trailer was taken without authorization and became involved in the accident before defendant was even aware of the truck driver's mistake.

  • Shawnee Preservation Soc'y v. Smithfield Twp. Bd. of Supervisors

    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1246 CIVIL 2023

    The court granted motions for judgment on the pleadings by defendant developer and defendant township in a dispute over the implementation of a settlement agreement following disputes over two real estate development plans filed in 2005 and 2007.

  • Tokyi Nests, Inc. v. Flipping the Poconos, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 001230-CV-2023

    The court denied defendants' motion to open default judgment and defendant LLC's motion to strike default judgment but granted individual defendant's motion to strike default judgment in an action over a construction remodeling contract.

  • Pena v. Colomban

    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    Case Number: 1010 CIVIL 2022

    The parties cross moved for summary judgment in an action resulting from a home sale. The court granted plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment on one count of defendant's counterclaim and denied defendant's motion for summary judgment.