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  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Reed

    Publication Date: 2020-05-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Serfass
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    Case Number: 20-0422

    Criminal defendant filed his notice of appeal before the sentencing hearing, so the court quashed the appeal as premature because no final order had yet been entered.

  • Commonwealth v. Derby

    Publication Date: 2020-02-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
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    Case Number: 20-0120

    A police officer's warrantless re-entry into a vehicle after the defendant had been arrested did not fall under any exception to the warrant requirement, so the court granted a motion to suppress the evidence obtained during that vehicle search.

  • In re: J.M.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-17
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-0091

    Petitioner's appeal of the certification for his involuntary commitment was untimely, and he failed to provide a reasonable excuse for his delay.

  • Aldosari v. Tuthill Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-17
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-0119

    Plaintiff, a first-time skier who lost confidence at the top of the slope but was offered no means to the bottom other than to ski, raised genuine issues of material fact regarding whether she voluntarily assumed the risks inherent to the sport of skiing. The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment.

  • Husar v. Palmerton Area Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-10
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-0089

    Plaintiff, a suspended high school principal, was not entitled to mandamus relief in lieu of an appeal to remedy an allegedly erroneous ruling on her claim that she was deprived of a public hearing where she failed to exhaust her statutory and administrative remedies. The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment.

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  • Commonwealth v. Lipani

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
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    Case Number: 20-0055

    Defendant was not entitled to have his mandatory minimum sentences invalidated under the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Alleyne v. U.S. where his petition for post-conviction relief was untimely and his judgment of sentence became final before Alleyne was decided. The court of common pleas recommended affirmance of an order denying defendant post-conviction relief.

  • McIntosh v. Locosa

    Publication Date: 2019-11-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Matika
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    Case Number: 19-1280

    Plaintiff was not entitled to proceed with her appeal in this case involving the Protection from Abuse Act, because she failed to file her concise statement of issues on appeal. Furthermore, plaintiff did not establish the existence of abuse to support the issuance of an order under the act.

  • VanDunk v. Farley

    Publication Date: 2019-08-26
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Serfass
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 19-0935

    Father was not entitled to relief on appeal from a final custody order agreed to by the parties and counsel where he failed to provide the trial court with a copy of his notice of appeal or a written statement of errors complained of on appeal in this custody matter. The court recommended affirmance.

  • A.B. v. K.R.K.Y.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 19-0630

    The court granted mother primary custody of the parties' three children, continuing an arrangement that father had agreed to, given the lack of evidence that mother disparaged father's faith and that the children had been well taken care of under the existing arrangement. The trial court granted mother primary custody.

  • Lehighton Area Sch. Dist. v. Bradley

    Publication Date: 2019-06-10
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Education
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Nanovic
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 19-0631

    Requests for public records were unduly burdensome where they failed to identify the subject matter and potentially involved a large number of records.