• Commonwealth v. Curtis Total Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-C-1276

    The parties filed competing motions regarding plaintiff's authority to conduct discovery regarding defendants' alleged violations of consumer protection laws which were unknown to plaintiff when it filed suit or which arose afterward. The court concluded plaintiff could conduct discovery regarding unknown alleged violations for the five years preceding its complaint, and regarding alleged violations that arose afterward.

  • In re: Applicants for Lehigh Valley Steam Acad. Charter Sch.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-C-2031

    The court denied the Applicants for Lehigh Valley Steam Academy Charter School's Emergency Petition to certify petition for appeal because the petition was 99 entries short of the number required.

  • Moser v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 498113732

    Plaintiff filed exceptions to the recommendation of the support hearing officer's recommendations. Exceptions granted; case remanded.

  • Morillo v. Echevarria

    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-C-0713

    The court entered judgment in favor of plaintiff homeowner after an assessment of damages hearing following entry of default judgment against defendant contractor. The court ruled defendant breached the parties' agreement for labor and general contracting services, as well as Pennsylvania consumer protection laws, thereby entitling plaintiff to treble damages and reasonable attorney fees.

  • McNabb v. PennDOT

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Cohen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-C-2838

    The court addressed appellant's petition for appeal from appellee's notice disqualifying his commercial driver's license for one year by finding that PennDOT was effectively punishing appellant twice for the same DUI conviction which was not permitted under 75 Pa. C.S.A §1611(a). Appeal sustained and disqualification rescinded.

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  • Commonwealth v. Garcia-Pagan

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Steinberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: CR-685-2023

    Commonwealth appealed the court's grant of appellee's motion to suppress evidence and petition for writ of habeas corpus. The court concluded that its order granting appellee's pretrial motions should be affirmed where an arresting officer unduly extended appellee's detention based on nothing more than a hunch and appellee's brief scuffle with the officer to avoid being handcuffed did not rise to the level of resisting arrest.

  • Commonwealth v. Curtis Total Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-C-1276

    The court responded to the Commonwealth's motion to dismiss defendants' objections to discovery and to compel responses to interrogatories and requests for production of documents by limiting the scope of discovery to five years prior to the filing of the complaint. The court refused defendants' request to limit the scope of discovery to incidents of unfair trade practices set forth in the complaint.

  • Young v. Lehigh County Dist. Attorney's Office

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Varricchio
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-C-1559

    Petitioner sought review of a final determination of the appeals officer of respondent office of open records of a county district attorney's office. The court affirmed, concluding that photographs sought by petitioner were exempt from disclosure as criminal investigative materials, even where they were gathered in connection with petitioner's criminal trial some forty years earlier in 1983.

  • Commonwealth v. McCarthy

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Steinberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: CR-213-2023

    Defendant filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, contending that there was insufficient evidence to support his prosecution for possession of a controlled substance because it was not unlawful for him, as a physician assistant, to possess the amphetamine seized at his residence. The court granted the petition.

  • Commonwealth v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Steinberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: CR-2339-2021

    Appellant appealed the court's denial of his motion for recovery of funds deducted from his prison account for the Crime Victim Services and Compensation Fund. The court held that its dismissal of appellant's motion should be affirmed.