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Publication Date: 2024-01-22
Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 46 C.D. 2023
Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission properly found petitioner landlord discriminated and retaliated against tenant when landlord refused to allow tenant suffering from PTSD to replace her deceased dog with a puppy. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-22
Practice Area: Tax
Industry: Mining and Resources
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Dumas
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Case Number: 347 C.D. 2022
Department of Labor and Industry had sufficient evidence to determine a de facto merger occurred between defunct company that owed unemployment compensation taxes and new entity that purchased the defunct company's assets, including the similarity in the entities' names and the continuity of their ownership/management. Order of the Department of Labor and Industry affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
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Case Number: 1473 C.D. 2022
Trial court erred in affirming zoning board's grant of a special exception and dimensional variances because landowners did not carry their burden of establishing that they met the requirements for the board to issue numerous dimensional variances and a special exception for former church property in a R-2 residential zone. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Health Care
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 1273 C.D. 2022
Petitioner sought review of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board's order affirming a workers' compensation judge's order denying and dismissing her petitions as barred by principles of res judicata. The court affirmed, holding that the WCJ and Board did not err in concluding petitioner's petitions effectively sought to relitigate her claims. The court held further that petitioner failed to satisfy the high burden required to obtain post-termination reinstatement of workers' compensation benefits.
Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leadbetter
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Case Number: 1200 C.D. 2022
Appellant tenant appealed her eviction after a shooter shot someone who attended her birthday party at her unit and court found the trial court erred in determining that the open nature of her party was sufficient to establish that shooter constituted an "Other Person under the Tenant's Control" in the absence of evidence that tenant invited shooter to the premises. Reversed.
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Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leadbetter
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Case Number: 1275 C.D. 2022
Trial court erred in denying inmate's in forma pauperis petition and holding his claims were frivolous because inmate's complaint was timely, he did not have to comply with the statutory notice provision in 42 Pa. C.S. §5522(a)(1) and factual development was needed to determine if correction officers' alleged actions were within the scope of their employment so as to entitle them to sovereign immunity. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 1372 C.D. 2022
Trial court erred as a matter of law in determining licensee's refusal of chemical testing was not knowing and conscious and in sustaining licensees' statutory appeal of his license suspension. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 554 C.D. 2022
Board erred in reversing Worker's Compensation Judge's denial of that part of claimant's workers' compensation petition related to aggravation of her preexisting anxiety and depression because the causal connection between claimant's shoulder injury and the alleged aggravation of her preexisting anxiety and depression were not well pleaded and employer did not lose its ability to contest that issue by filing a late answer to the claim petition. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Fizzano
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Case Number: 431 C.D. 2022
Trial court erred in denying appeal from lifetime suspension of CDL for second DUI conviction where licensee pled sufficient facts to enable the trial court to evaluate the harshness of a lifetime suspension under the Eighth Amendment. Order of the trial court remanded.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 799 C.D. 2022
Department of Human Services erred in revoking petitioner YMCA's childcare center license without considering it for a provisional license since YMCA was in substantial compliance. Reversed.
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