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Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Public Records
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 398 C.D. 2022
Law enforcement incident report which contained investigating officers' observations, findings, and conclusions fell within the criminal investigative exemption to disclosure under the Right-to-Know Law. Final determination of the Office of Open Records affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 447 C.D. 2021
Trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of township in appellant's action over storm water discharge from a pipe onto appellant's property because court found township did not refute appellant's evidence the new pipe increased the volume of water flowing onto the property, the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act did not immunize township and there was a material question of fact as to plaintiff's common law negligence claim. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 315 M.D. 2018
Petitioner and parole board argued discovery issues in petitioner's challenge to the denial of his 2017, 2018 and 2019 parole applications and court found the 2022 parole denial did not make the action moot, confidentiality regulation was not a per se bar to the production of documents in a parolee's file, board did not show the criminal history record information act applied and court dismissed board's objections to interrogatories as boilerplate. Motions granted in part and dismissed in part.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Real Estate
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 16 C.D. 2023
Planned Community Act entitled association to assess its legal fees incurred in attempting to enforce parking regulations upon unit owners. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Ceisler
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Case Number: 1069 C.D. 2022
City ordinance regulating firearms parts or machinery used to fabricate firearms was not preempted by the Uniform Firearms Act as parts and machinery did not constitute "firearms" under the statute. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 1 BIC 2023
Court overruled defendant's preliminary objections to insurance liquidator's action seeking to void money transferred by defendant under a supersedeas bond because court found that contrary to defendant's argument, insurer's liability for the judgment underlying the action was not contingent upon the order affirming the case but insurer's liability attached as soon as the district court entered its Nov. 30, 2020 court order. Preliminary objections overruled.
Publication Date: 2024-03-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 543 M.D. 2022
Court lacked jurisdiction to consider petition seeking to invalidate mandatory life without parole sentences for 18-year-olds as violative of the Eighth Amendment and the Pennsylvania Constitution, as such a petition was only cognizable under the Post Conviction Relief Act and thus was untimely. Attorney General's preliminary objection sustained, case dismissed.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Education Law
Industry: Education
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 725 C.D. 2022
Acting Secretary of Education's determination that petitioner be terminated from his position as a tenured professional employee was based on substantial evidence that supported the necessary factual findings and school district complied with the procedural requirements of the school code. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Construction
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 298 C.D. 2023
Workers' compensation appeal board properly held that claimant's evidence did not establish that he was a traveling employee without a fixed place of employment and he was not acting in the course and scope of his employment when he was injured in a motor vehicle accident on his way home from work in his own vehicle. Affirmed.
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.
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