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  • Crocker-Fasulo v. Fasulo

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 990 MDA 2022

    Trial court properly considered post-divorce assets and income acquired by the parties when considering a petition to modify or terminate alimony. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2023-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 1055 EDA 2022

    Trial court violated defendant's Sixth Amendment rights by disqualifying chosen counsel for alleged violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct when counsel made pretrial statements to the media, where trial court's disqualification appeared to be punitive in nature rather than focused on preventing any prejudice to the commonwealth's ability to have a fair trial. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded for new trial.

  • Commonwealth v. Troell

    Publication Date: 2023-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 567 MDA 2022

    Trial court properly applied an offense gravity score of 12 when sentencing appellant for aggravated indecent assault of a child because appellant entered a guilty plea under 18 Pa.C.S.A. §3125(b) and did not contest the factual basis supporting the charge, that he penetrated the complainant when she was less than 13 years of age and without her consent. Affirmed.

  • Ungarean v. CNA & Valley Forge Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-19
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 490 WDA 2021

    Trial court properly granted summary judgment to plaintiff in action for insurance coverage for loss of business income due to COVID-19 under policy's business income and extra expense provisions and court agreed with trial court's interpretation of "direct physical loss of or damage to" to include the act of being deprived of the physical use of one's property. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2022-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 1279 EDA 2021

    Motion to suppress erroneously granted where police were permitted to seize illegal firearm under plain view doctrine after seeing the gun through an open window during a lawful traffic stop. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

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  • Hicks v. Global Data Consultants, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-08-22
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 22-0942

    Breach of contract and Wage Payment and Collection Law claims arising from underpayment of commissions failed where parties had at-will employment relationship, entitling employer to alter the terms of employment, including compensation, at any time. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Jenkins v. Robertson

    Publication Date: 2022-06-27
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 22-0720

    Landlord appealed trial court's order in favor of tenant in landlord/tenant action and court found that trial court, in effect, entered a nonsuit based on landlord's failure to appear and entered judgment simultaneously with entry of its order, that judgment was premature and void and court had no jurisdiction over the appeal. Appeal quashed.

  • Commonwealth v. Lippincott

    Publication Date: 2022-04-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 22-0443

    Remand was necessary for new sexually violent predator evaluation where offender was subject to amended SORNA provisions rather than Megan's Law II. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Velez

    Publication Date: 2022-04-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 22-0425

    Trial court did not abuse its discretion in imposing an above-guidelines range sentence where the trial court considered all relevant mitigating sentencing factors but decided to impose the sentence based on the violent nature of the crime. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Harper

    Publication Date: 2022-04-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 22-0400

    Term-years to life sentence imposed upon defendant for second-degree murder committed as a juvenile did not run afoul of constitutional protections where defendant would have a meaningful opportunity for release that would afford a non-trivial amount of time out of prison. Judgment of sentence affirmed.