• City of New Castle v. Int'l Ass'n of Firefighters, Local 160

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0526

    The court declined to vacate a grievance arbitration award issued in accordance with Act 111, which was enacted to provide prompt and binding solutions to labor disputes involving police officers and firefighters, as there was no basis to overturn the award under the limited judicial review applicable to such proceedings. The court denied a petition to vacate a grievance arbitration award.

  • Hudak v. Hudak

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0471

    The court granted plaintiff's motion to list the parties' marital residence for sale where defendant failed to make the necessary mortgage payments, thereby placing a major marital asset at risk, while also failing to explain his conduct and squandering an opportunity to bring the mortgage current. The court of common pleas recommended affirmance.

  • Medvitz v. Gabriel

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0241

    Preliminary objections to respondents' new matter sustained where order to show cause issued to respondents did not concern the claims raised by respondents that were struck by the preliminary objections. Petitioner's preliminary objections sustained in part and overruled in part.

  • Sharisky v. Sharisky

    Publication Date: 2022-02-21
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0090

    The court ruled that defendants' preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint should be granted and plaintiff's complaint should be dismissed on the basis of res judicata, collateral estoppel, and failure to state a claim for fraud. Complaint dismissed.

  • In re: R.N.S.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1152

    The court terminated father's parental rights where he showed no interest in his minor daughter and, through conduct continuing for at least six months immediately preceding the filing of a petition to involuntary terminate parental rights, evidenced a settled purpose of relinquishing parental claim to his daughter and failed to perform his parental duties. The court granted the petition to terminate.

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  • In re: The Ellwood City Cmty. Health Found.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-14
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-1194

    The court refused the request of a non-profit corporation, formed to fund the operations of a hospital, to amend its articles of incorporation and change its purpose to that of a charitable corporation since the non-profit had a legal obligation to former employees to fund an underfunded pension plan before it could be said to have completed its corporate purpose. The court recommended affirmance.

  • In re: The Ellwood City Cmty. Health Found.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-29
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-0832

    The court rejected a foundation's petition to allow a change in its charitable purpose, because the foundation had not yet satisfied all the obligations associated with its previously-stated purpose.

  • In re: M.R.F., III

    Publication Date: 2018-01-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-0010

    Petitioners, the foster care parents of a minor child, had no standing to intervene in this dependency proceeding where the goal of reunification with mother was never changed and mother never consented to her childs permanent placement with petitioners. The court denied petitioners motion to intervene.

  • Metro Treatment of PA, LP v. Zoning Hearing Bd. of Twp. of Shenango

    Publication Date: 2018-01-16
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-0005

    A township zoning hearing board did not err in denying an applicants request for a special exception to use land located in a C-2 zoning district to construct a clinic as a comparable use not specifically listed given that a clinic was specifically listed in the subject ordinance. The court dismissed the applicants appeal.

  • DeCesare v. Decesare

    Publication Date: 2018-01-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-0009

    Married parties entered into an enforceable contract to repay funds they borrowed from their minor childs account, but the parties past practices indicated that they always used marital funds, not separate assets, to repay such debts. The court released funds held in escrow from the sale of husbands pre-marital residence, because the agreement to repay funds to the trust account was a marital obligation.