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  • Commonwealth v. McConnell

    Publication Date: 2021-01-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 21-0008

    Turning on construction floodlights that cast an unreasonable amount of light into a residential neighborhood did not have a reasonable purpose and constituted a public nuisance that violated the disorderly persons statute. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Pineda v. Perry

    Publication Date: 2020-10-05
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-1078

    Defendants appealed order permanently enjoining them from denying plaintiff access to an alley and court found there was an "easement of access" that could not be impaired, defendants' proposed defenses of abandonment, merger or adverse possession were inapplicable to this case and court lifted the stay and suspension of the permanent injunction. Affirmed and stay lifted.

  • Heart Care Consultants, LLC v. Albataineh

    Publication Date: 2020-09-14
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0996

    Rescission claim barred by res judicata and election of remedies where plaintiffs had previously filed a breach of contract action based on defendant's alleged breach of the parties' settlement agreement.

  • Commonwealth v. Rosenthal

    Publication Date: 2020-06-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0636

    The trial courtdid not abuse its discretion in holding that further inquiry into jurydeliberations was not warranted in this case since the comments highlighted by a specific juror did not show that racial animus was a significant motivating factorin the jurors' vote to convict defendant. The superior court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Commonwealth v. Purnell

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0606

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting the commonwealth's request to have a comfort dog present during the testimony of an autistic minor as there was no inherent prejudice in the presence of the dog in the courtroom and the trial court was not required to find a compelling "necessity" for the dog's presence. The superior court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

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  • In re: Estate of Atkinson

    Publication Date: 2020-04-20
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0408

    The trial court erred and abused its discretion in overruling defendants' preliminary objection and refusing to compel arbitration of a trust beneficiary's claims arising from trust accounts created and governed by documents containing valid arbitration provisions. The appellate court reversed and remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Brockington

    Publication Date: 2020-04-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0384

    Defendant failed to present sufficient evidence to invoke self-defense as a justification for her actions, i.e., firing a handgun into the air of her Philadelphia neighborhood, where her testimony did not establish that she knew or had reason to believe that anyone had unlawfully entered or was in the process of unlawfully entering her home. The superior court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.

  • Snyder v. Crusader Servicing Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-06
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0371

    Defendant corporation appealed damages awarded to plaintiff for the value of his shares in corporation and court found trial court erred in disregarding the shareholders' agreement and valuing plaintiff's shares itself instead of using the procedure in the shareholders' agreement. Vacated in part.

  • Grabowski v. Carelink Cmty. Support Servs., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0316

    Injured worker's affirmative actions to secure additional payment in a workers' compensation settlement on grounds that she suffered a physical attack in the course of her employment precluded her from subsequently asserting the third-party attack exception to the Workers' Compensation Act's bar on personal injury actions. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Cobbs

    Publication Date: 2020-03-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
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    Case Number: 20-0254

    While the life sentence underlying defendant's subsequent conviction for assault by a life prisoner was later altered, the only relevant status to the charge of assault by a life prisoner, pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. §2704, was defendant's sentence status at the time he committed the assault. The superior court affirmed defendant's judgment.