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  • January 17, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Significant Environmental Cases in Pa. Courts During 2018 (Part I)

    The Pennsylvania appellate courts decided a relatively large number of environmental cases during 2018. The following survey attempts to characterize them very briefly.

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  • August 23, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Raise It or Waive It: Standing Can Play a Critical Role in Zoning Hearings

    While the setting may be significantly less formal—think a public works garage or community center gymnasium rather than a marble-columned historic landmark—standing requirements apply in the context of a zoning hearing as they do in a more formal courtroom setting.

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  • Georgia Dep't of Revenue v. Trawick Constr. Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Lourdes Gonzalez, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert G. Brazier and Michael S. Evans Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Timothy J. Peaden Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A08A2323

    The ALJ's role in an inter agency appeal arising from the assessment of additional taxes was to act as the representative of the Revenue Department and to make a recommendation to the commiss

  • Davis v. Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

    Publication Date: 2001-05-10
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    Date Filed: 2001-05-08
    Court: Pa. Commw. Ct.
    Judge: President Judge Doyle
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    Case Number: 1895 C.D. 1999

    Submitted: January 7, 2000James Davis, through his wife Betty M. Davis, petitions this Court for review of the June 25, 1999 administrative order of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (D

  • Beta Spawn, Inc. v. FFE Transportation Services, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-17
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    Date Filed: 2001-05-15
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Kravitch, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 00-1332

    Argued on March 8, 2001OPINION OF THE COURTFFE Transportation Services, Inc. ("FFE") appeals from the judgment of the district court finding FFE liable to Beta Spawn, Inc. for the value of a shi

  • J.G. v. Department of Public Welfare

    Publication Date: 2002-04-11
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-10
    Court: Pa. Commw. Ct.
    Judge: Senior Judge Kelley
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    Case Number: NO. 1443 C.D. 20

    Submitted: December 21, 2001OPINIONJ.G. petitions for review of a final order entered by the Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW), which affirmed an order entered by DPW's Bureau

  • Millcreek Manor v. Department of Public Works

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-18
    Court: Pa. Commw. Ct.
    Judge: Senior Judge Kelley
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    Case Number: 1329 C.D. 2001

    Argued: November 6, 2001OPINIONMillcreek Manor (Millcreek) petitions for review of a decision of the order of the Bureau of Hearings and Appeals (Bureau) of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW

  • Khodara Environmental, Inc. v. Beckman

    Publication Date: 2001-01-18
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    Date Filed: 2001-01-17
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Alito, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 99-3458,, 99-346

    Argued: February 28, 2000OPINION OF THE COURTEagle Environmental, L.P. ("Eagle"), a landfill developer, brought both facial and as-applied challenges against a federal statute regulating the pla

  • January 28, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Philadelphia's Public Spaces: For Sale by Owner?

    Over the past six months, Philadelphia City Council has proposed a myriad of bills that would place advertisements in our public spaces, e.g. on school buses, on newsstands, entire sides of b

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  • Nabors Drilling, U.S.A., Inc. v. Caescoto

    Publication Date: 2009-06-22
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    Date Filed: 2009-06-19
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Justice Green
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    Case Number: 06-0890

    Argued February 5, 2008Employers in Texas generally do not owe a duty to third parties for the tortious activities of off-duty employees occurring off the work site. Loram Maint. of Way, Inc. v. Ia