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Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge Trauger
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Case Number: 2022-01224 (Consolidated)
Appellant appealed the court's order granting an award of sanctions in favor of appellees. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where the court imposed proportionate sanctions that were consistent with the size and import of the litigation in response to appellant's willful, intentional and purposeful violation of the court's consent order, which incorporated the parties' negotiated settlement of their dispute.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
Judge: Judge Verwey
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Case Number: 2018-01294-CU
In this §1925(a) opinion, the court urged the Superior Court to affirm its final custody order as the proper relief and supported by the record.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 636 MDA 2023
Trial court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the doctrine of paternity by estoppel did not apply and in ordering genetic testing to determine child's paternity because child had a relationship with appellee and his family throughout his life to which appellant, through his action and inaction, acquiesced. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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Case Number: 22-2788
Appellants appealed the district court's order granting summary judgment in favor of police officers on the basis of qualified immunity where the officers inflicted gratuitous injuries on family members, none of whom were suspected of any criminal activity, during a pre-dawn, no-knock raid on a residence. The court reversed, holding that the district court erred by predominantly crediting the officers' version of events for purposes of summary judgment, rather than construing the evidence in favor of plaintiffs, as non-movants.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Public Records
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge Trauger
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Case Number: 2023-04244
Petitioner appealed the court's order denying his petition for review of respondent's refusal to provide copies of specified police bodycam video. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where petitioner offered no verified factual basis to overcome respondent's verified, articulated reasons for withholding police bodycam video that was pertinent to an ongoing investigation.
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Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Industry: Construction
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Wolson
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Case Number: 2:23-cv-02880-JDW
Plaintiff moved to amend its complaint to add additional defendants and Lanham Act claims for trademark infringement and unfair competition to its action against defendant former employee who left and took confidential materials to competitor and court allowed amendment but required plaintiff to excise mentions of a false advertising claim. Granted in part.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge McHugh
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Case Number: 21-5280
Family and Medical Leave Act interference claim was plausible where there were genuine issues of material fact as to whether proposed reassignment following return from leave was substantially equivalent to prior role. Defendants' motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part, plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment denied.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 1048 C.D. 2021
Trial court properly found that zoning ordinance limiting short-term rentals was not impermissibly exclusionary but erred in upholding ZHB's denial of landowners' application to continue their legal, nonconforming use of the property for short-term rentals because landowner's use was lawful and conforming when it began in 2017. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Litigation
Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Woods-Skipper
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Case Number: 00189
In this §1925(a) opinion, the court asked the Superior Court to dismiss the appeal of its order approving a petition to settle wrongful death and survivor action including the court's directive that attorneys' fees and costs in dispute be deposited in escrow pending resolution of a dispute pending in Commerce Court in a proper exercise of its judicial discretion pursuant to 42 Pa. C.S. §323.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Education | Recruitment and Staffing
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Sanchez
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Case Number: 23-1937
Defendant school district moved to dismiss claimant's title VII and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act complaint alleging race discrimination and retaliation and court found claimant had not satisfied the PHRA's exhaustion requirements but did satisfy title VII's administrative prerequisites, claimant sufficiently alleged an employment relationship with defendant and staffing agency was not a necessary party. Motion dismissed.
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