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Publication Date: 2021-07-19
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 21-0690
An award from a victim compensation fund belonged to decedent's estate, so the court denied an objection by decedent's surviving spouse regarding the right to the compensation award.
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Occupational Safety and Health
Industry: Manufacturing
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-1207
Trial court erred in dismissing appellants' action for hearing loss from excessive sound exposure from fire engine sirens manufactured by appellee for lack of personal jurisdiction over appellee because by registering in Pennsylvania as a foreign corporation, appellee consented to general personal jurisdiction in Pennsylvania. Vacated.
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-1208
Where Act 21 was intended to ensure continued mental health treatment of juveniles adjudicated as sexually violent delinquent children, continued involuntary treatment was neither punitive in nature nor constituted ex post facto punishment. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Employment Litigation | Personal Injury
Industry: Transportation
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-0890
Trial court erred in finding that 45 U.S.C. §56 controlled appellant's motion to dismiss appellees' FELA claims on forum non conveniens grounds and abused its discretion in giving heightened deference to appellees' choice of forum because §56 addressed venue in federal district courts, not forum non conveniens in state courts, and abused its discretion in denying the motion. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2018-07-24
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-0851
The trial court did not err in denying defendant's challenge to the weight of the evidence where any alleged contradictory testimony supporting his criminal conviction, when viewed as a whole, was complimentary and any difference in testimony involved a minor discrepancy. The appellate court affirmed defendant's judgment of sentence.
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Publication Date: 2018-07-03
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-0784
The trial court did not err in finding that plaintiff's wrongful death and survival claims, premised upon alleged violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and its implementing regulations, were preempted by the federal system of regulating and enforcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The appellate court affirmed the trial court's order.
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-0657
Trial court was not obligated to resentence after vacating "restitution" that was in fact an order to pay costs of prosecution. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice
Industry: Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-0630
Legal malpractice claim untimely when client, through exercise of due diligence, should have discovered attorney's breach of duty of care upon filing of complaint omitting material facts or court's dismissal on those grounds. Summary judgment affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Practice Area: Attorney Compensation
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-0531
The trial court properly found that opposing counsels acquiescence to the claimed attorney fees was not dispositive of a fair and reasonable amount and, thus, considered counsels testimony that his representation of plaintiff was totally separate and unconnected to his work at his former intellectual property law firm. The appellate court affirmed the trial courts order granting attorney fees.
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
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Case Number: 18-0529
Even assuming defendant did not waive his claim that the trial court erred in granting the commonwealths motion to preclude repeated references to him as an innocent man during voir dire, the claim failed since the trial courts decision did not undermine his presumption of innocence. The appellate court affirmed defendants judgment of sentence.
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