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Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: Construction | Real Estate
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 6452 CIVIL 2023
Respondents filed preliminary objections to claimant's mechanic's lien. The court sustained the majority of respondents' preliminary objections, including their preliminary objection that claimant's claim was not timely filed, and dismissed the claim.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Hardiman
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Case Number: 22-3033
District court erred in excluding government's video and photo evidence in child pornography case in favor of a stipulated written description of the evidence and court found district court overestimated the extent to which the written descriptions reduced the exhibits' probative value under Rule 403, it was far from "obvious" that the potentially cumulative nature of the exhibits substantially outweighed the probative value of admitting any of the exhibits and district court erred in not viewing the exhibits before ruling. Vacated an
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 497 M.D. 2018
Petitioner indisputably received sufficient post-deduction due process and Department of Corrections was entitled to judgment in its favor as a matter of law in petitioner's action asserting deprivation of due process in DOC's deduction of court ordered costs from his inmate account. Petition dismissed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
Industry: Construction | Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
Judge: Judge Mahon
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Case Number: 2022-01390-IR
The court filed a §1925(a) opinion urging the Superior Court to affirm its order confirming an arbitration award in favor of defendants and denying plaintiff's cross petition to vacate the award in a case in which defendants sought to recover attorneys' fees owed it by plaintiff.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Insurance | Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Allen
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Case Number: 00733
Plaintiffs appealed the court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants in plaintiffs' actions for legal malpractice and breach of contract. The court explained that it granted defendants' motions in the consolidated actions where plaintiffs failed to show the existence of a contract or attorney-client relationship between the pertinent parties in a multi-party dispute about negligent handling of a workers' compensation claim.
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Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Business Torts
Industry: Consumer Products
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Sanchez
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Case Number: 21-3984
Plaintiff brought a shareholder derivative action against defendants for usurpation of corporate opportunity and related claims. The court found in favor of plaintiff upon trial, concluding plaintiff's son, as majority shareholder in the family business, usurped corporate opportunity and breached his fiduciary duties by unilaterally diverting a project from the family business to his own company.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Public Records
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 398 C.D. 2022
Law enforcement incident report which contained investigating officers' observations, findings, and conclusions fell within the criminal investigative exemption to disclosure under the Right-to-Know Law. Final determination of the Office of Open Records affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Retail | Software
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
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Case Number: 22-1174
Court rejected motion to exclude damages expert's report where defendants' objections to the report went to weight and credibility rather than fit and reliability. Defendants' motion to exclude denied, parties' motions to seal granted.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Zulick
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Case Number: 5843 CV 2023
Defendant filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint for collection of a delinquent credit card account. The court denied defendant's preliminary objections in part, concluding plaintiff's complaint was sufficiently specific where an exhibit depicted all pertinent purchases and payments to the account, with details regarding dates and locations where purchases were made, and the complaint included a copy of plaintiff's alleged written account agreement. The court granted the preliminary objections in part and dismissed plai
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 447 C.D. 2021
Trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of township in appellant's action over storm water discharge from a pipe onto appellant's property because court found township did not refute appellant's evidence the new pipe increased the volume of water flowing onto the property, the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act did not immunize township and there was a material question of fact as to plaintiff's common law negligence claim. Reversed.
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