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  • Faulkner v. Philadelphia Dist. Attorney's Office

    Publication Date: 2022-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Fox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0897

    Petitioner was not entitled to the attorney general's intervention in the underlying criminal matter under the Commonwealth Attorneys Act since she failed to follow the procedures set forth in that Act and also filed her request prematurely, before substantiating a conflict of interest claim. The court recommended affirmance.

  • Commonwealth v. Brothers

    Publication Date: 2022-08-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0875

    Court granted criminal defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a warrantless search of a vehicle. The court noted that although the officer conducting the search had probable cause to search the vehicle for drug paraphernalia, no exigent circumstances existed because the occupants had exited the vehicle and were not able to destroy any potential evidence at the time of the search. Therefore, because the warrantless search was not predicated on both probable cause and exigent circumstances, the search violated defendant

  • Insectarium & Butterfly Pavilion v. Kanya

    Publication Date: 2022-06-20
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Roberts
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0587

    The oral agreements between the defendant and a non-party involving the transfer of his ownership interest in certain real property were enforceable where defendant acknowledged that he had entered into those oral contracts, thereby satisfying the purpose of the statute of frauds. The court recommended affirmance.

  • In re: T.R.G.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0462

    Petitioners met their burden on a petition to terminate father's parental rights where the evidence demonstrated that father, who did not appear at a hearing on the matter, had not contacted his children in roughly a decade and had caused the children to be without essential parental care for all that time. The court granted a petition to involuntary terminate father's parental rights.

  • Wentz v. Blakeslee

    Publication Date: 2022-03-14
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0211

    Summary relief was not warranted in this dog-bite case given the material issues of fact regarding whether defendant had prior knowledge of his dog's alleged dangerous propensities, whether the minor plaintiff provoked the dog and whether defendant could have done anything to prevent the child from having contact with the dog. The court denied defendant's motion for summary relief.

  • Commonwealth v. Acosta

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0054

    The court held that the facts supporting two separate charges against defendant arose out of a single criminal episode such that the filing of the second set of charges violated the prohibition against double jeopardy. Charges dismissed.

  • Process Tech. & Packaging, LLC v. Agent K, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-1428

    State precedent recognizes that an insurance broker's receipt of a portion of insurance premiums paid by an insured, in exchange for acting as the insured's direct contact for insurance claims against its insurer, serves as sufficient consideration for an oral contract between insured and broker; therefore, plaintiff's breach of contract claims survived. The court overruled defendants' preliminary objections.

  • McEllroy v. Allentown City

    Publication Date: 2021-11-15
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-1224

    All gross receipts that petitioners received for their for-profit daycare center, including monies received through the Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts Program, were appropriately included as gross or whole volume of business and were, therefore, taxable under Allentown City's taxation code. The court denied petitioners' appeal.

  • Martin v. Robert K. Ace, Jr. Constr., LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-08-09
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0752

    Plaintiffs were obligated to arbitrate any claims arising from a construction contract with defendant where the contract contained a valid and enforceable arbitration clause and plaintiffs admitted that they willingly executed the contract with knowledge of that clause. The court sustained defendant's preliminary objections.

  • Keeney v. Keeney

    Publication Date: 2021-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0720

    While grandmother was willing to assume responsibility for mother's minor child, she lacked standing to file a complaint in custody where the evidence of record failed to demonstrate, inter alia, that grandmother stood in loco parentis to the child. The court sustained defendant's preliminary objections.