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Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Dubow
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Case Number: 2200 EDA 2022
Juvenile appellant challenged a dispositional order after juvenile court accepted appellant's admissions but rejected the agreed-upon disposition and court found juvenile court violated Pa.R.J.C.P. 407(A)(3) by accepting part of the tender, the admission, and basing its adjudication of delinquency solely on appellant's admission, without allowing appellant to withdraw the admission and/or without accepting additional evidence from either party. Vacated and reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Construction | Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Roberts
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Case Number: 2665 EDA 2023
The court filed its §1925(a) opinion urging the Superior Court to affirm its order denying defendant ADT's motion to reopen the default judgment entered against it after plaintiff Onekey Homes sued ADT for failure to properly complete work as contractor at nine of Onekey's development projects.
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Construction | Transportation
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Foglietta
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Case Number: 02689
Defendant appealed a judgment entered upon a jury's personal injury verdict in favor of an injured worker. The court concluded that its judgment should affirmed where defendant, which subcontracted plaintiff's employer for construction work along transit authority train tracks, was not a statutory employer entitled to employer immunity under the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Government
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 1272 C.D. 2021
The City of Philadelphia appealed an interlocutory order overruling its preliminary objections to a prisoner complaint against the City and employees of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. Appeal granted.
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 98 C.D. 2023
Petitioner appealed the denial of his request for administrative relief from parole board's decision recommitting him as a convicted parole violator and court found board's choice of 154 days of street time was fully consonant with its discretion. Affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Padilla
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Case Number: 03606
The court issued a §1925(a) opinion urging the Superior Court to affirm its order denying the petition to open the default judgment in a suit for unpaid attorneys' fees and remanding the case for a new trial on damages.
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Hodge
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Case Number: 22-4049
Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's Title VII, Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act complaint asserting race and age discrimination and retaliation and court found plaintiff's title VII claim failed because he did not identify any similarly situated comparators who were treated more favorably or sufficiently allege facts to support an inference of race discrimination, and he failed to show he was replaced by a younger person, but defendant's exhaustion argument as to plaintiff's PHRA claim was m
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Litigation
Industry: Health Care | Hospitality and Lodging
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Motto
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Case Number: 10257 OF 2023, C.A.
Defendant son filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint seeking recovery of the unpaid balance for his deceased mother's skilled nursing care. The court sustained the preliminary objection that plaintiff's complaint lacked requisite specificity where it failed to aver whether its agreement for the mother's care was oral or written and, if written, no copy was provided with plaintiff's complaint. The court overruled defendant's preliminary objection that the complaint lacked specificity by failing to set forth special damag
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Kunselman
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Case Number: 648 WDA 2023
Appellant appealed his sentence following his conviction for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Rambo
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Case Number: 22-CV-00958
Defendants moved for summary judgment in landlord tenant case and court dismissed plaintiff tenant's infliction of emotional distress, punitive damages, civil conspiracy and negligent hiring claims but found plaintiff sufficiently pled trespass, conversion and aiding and abetting. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
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