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  • S.K. v. Dep't of Human Serv.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 19-0421

    Bureau of Hearings and Appeals erred in concluding that petitioner acted recklessly and committed child abuse in denying petitioner's request to expunge his indicated report of child abuse because petitioner tried to use a Safe Crisis Management approved upper torso restraint on minor but the restraint did not go as planned and there was no evidence that petitioner grossly deviated from what a reasonable person would have found acceptable under the same circumstances. Reversed.

  • K.G. v. Dep't of Human Serv.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-05
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0662

    Mother's challenge to the secretary's order denying her request for reconsideration of department decision to dismiss her appeal of an in-dicated report of child abuse was denied because mother failed to respond to the rule to show cause or to timely petition for review of the dismissal of her appeal and neither her petition for review nor her brief addressed the validity of the secretary's decision and thus, her challenge to the validity of that decision was waived. Affirmed.

  • J. K. v. Dept of Human Services

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0179

    ALJ erred on remand by disregarding the unchanged evidentiary record and by failing to relate the change in his credibility determinations to the appropriate standard of proof and glossed over the evidence of taint in childs testimony in stepfathers action for expungement of an indicated report naming him as a perpetrator of child sexual abuse. Reversed.

  • K.J. v. Pennsylvania Department Of Public Welfare

    Publication Date: 2001-01-12
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    Date Filed: 2001-01-10
    Court: COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
    Judge: Senior Judge Mirarchi
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    Case Number: 2979 C.D. 1999

    Argued: September 12, 2000K.J. appeals from the final order of the Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) affirming a decision of the Bureau of Hearings and Appeals (BHA), which in tur