• Lackawanna County v. Correctional Care, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-28
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0213

    Trial court properly granted a mandatory preliminary injunction requiring appellants to bind tail insurance coverage for a three-year term for medical malpractice claims arising from appellants' provision of health care services to inmates at county prison because trial court reasonably found the deadline for binding tail insurance was rapidly approaching and if the deadline passed, the parties would be exposed to potentially catastrophic liability. Affirmed.

  • McElwee v. Bureau of Prof'l & Occupational Affairs

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0128

    Petitioner appealed state board of veterinary medicine's holding that her practice as an animal chiropractic constituted the unlicensed practice of veterinary medicine and court found the substance of her treatment for subluxations, as defined by petitioner in her testimony, was included in the definition of "veterinary medicine." Affirmed.

  • Cent. Pennsylvania Radiation Oncology, P.C. v. The Good Samaritan Hosp. of Lebanon

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1522

    The trial court did not err in finding that there was neither a joint venture nor a partnership created between the parties where the evidence failed to demonstrate that there was any fiduciary duty between the parties or that plaintiff had any right of mutual control. The commonwealth court affirmed.

  • 2800 N. Broad St., LLC v. Commonwealth Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-19
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-0828

    Condemnee mistakenly argued that a partial de jure condemnation of its property effected a de facto taking of the entirety of its property interest such that the remainder had no economic value since the de jure partial taking already contemplated damages to the remainder of the property. The commonwealth court reversed and remanded.

  • Sincavage v. Unemployment Comp. Review Bd.

    Publication Date: 2021-06-07
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-0632

    Unemployment compensation review board properly found claimant was not entitled to benefits because she voluntarily quit her job when she retired and properly found a non-fault overpayment because her disqualification for part of a week resulted in loss of benefits for the entire calendar week. Affirmed.

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  • Woodward Twp. Mun. Corp. v. Dunstable Twp. Mun. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-31
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-0602

    Trial court properly found boundary line between two townships and properly adopted recommendation of the appointed board of boundary commissioners because court could not set aside one set of assumptions supported by record evidence and commissioners' view of the land involved and alleged monument on site in favor of another set and commissioners found resort to evidence of acquiescence was unnecessary given their finding that the Woodward surveyors' line was the true boundary line between the townships. Affirmed.

  • Cease v. Housing Auth. of Indiana County

    Publication Date: 2021-03-01
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 21-0213

    The commonwealth court instructed a county housing authority to fulfill its mandate under the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act to establish fair and reasonable standards for determining in what circumstances admission to Section 8 housing is prohibited for an applicant legally using medical marijuana under state law and to apply such standards to the plaintiff. The commonwealth court affirmed in part and remanded.

  • Zelno v. Lyons

    Publication Date: 2021-02-08
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-0134

    Court of common pleas properly denied appellant property owner's challenge to an otherwise valid tax sale of the property on the grounds of lack of notice of the tax claim because appellant conflated the procedures under the Real Estate Tax Sale Law for challenging tax claims with those governing tax sales and she had actual notice of the impending tax sale and failed to take any action. Affirmed.

  • In re: Appeal of City of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2020-12-07
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1331

    Trial court erred in quashing city's appeal of zoning board decision granting a variance and finding city lacked standing because equitable owner sought a variance that city viewed to be contrary to the spirit or goals set forth in city's comprehensive plan and city had the required "substantial, direct and immediate" interest necessary to be an aggrieved party. Reversed.

  • In re Appeal of Ridge Park Civic Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2020-10-12
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
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    Case Number: 20-1115

    Trial court erred in holding that the minimum variance criterion was inapplicable to use variances in objectors' challenge to grant of applicants' use and dimensional variances and court remanded for trial court to make the appropriate findings as to the quantitative aspects of the minimum variances necessary for this to be a viable project. Vacated and remanded.