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  • Esperanza Acad. Charter Sch. v. The Sch. Dist. of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Covey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 1430-1431 C.D. 2022

    No error in calculating charter schools' tuition rates where school district could deduct federal block grants and pre-K funding since those funds could not be directed to charter schools. Order of the Department of Education affirmed.

  • K.H. v. Dep't of Human Serv.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
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    Case Number: 739 C.D. 2022

    Court quashed appeal denying access to purportedly privileged information in child abuse investigation, where denial of discovery motion was not a collateral order as relief would not be irrevocably lost if review were postponed until resolution of the expunction appeal. Appeal quashed.

  • Butler Area Sch. Dist. v. Levine

    Publication Date: 2022-10-17
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
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    Case Number: 647 M.D. 2020

    While voters recently approved amendments to the state constitution placing constraints on the Pennsylvania Governor's authority to act in a disaster emergency, petitioners raised a viable issue regarding whether the commonwealth's police powers in disaster emergencies could override specific grants of emergency powers given to local public school districts. The commonwealth court overruled respondent's preliminary objections.

  • Bell v. Wilkinsburg Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-03
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Brobson
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    Case Number: 21-0491

    The trial court committed an error of law by failing to conclude that the Wilkinsburg School District violated § 23.2 of the State Board of Education's regulations by providing certain charter school students with public transportation bus passes as a means of transportation to their charter schools without first obtaining approval. The appellate court reversed and remanded.

  • 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
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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
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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.

  • Hillside Villas Condo. Assn, Inc. v. Bottaro Dev. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 18-0105

    Property owned that retained ownership of land used for condominium development, expressly identified itself as declarant, and expressly warranted construction was liable as declarant under Uniform Condominium Act. Judgment affirmed in part and vacated in part, case remanded for recalculation of damages.

  • 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

  • General Electric Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Rizzo)

    Publication Date: 1999-05-11
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    Date Filed: 1999-05-11
    Court: In The Commonwealth Court Of Pennsylvania
    Judge: Honorable Bernard L. McGinley, Judge, Honorable Jim Flaherty, Judge, Honorable Samuel L. Rodgers, Senior Judge
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    Case Number: No. 3289 C.D. 1998

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.OPINION BY SENIOR JUDGE RODGERS General Electric Company (Employer) petitions for review of an o