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  • Boback v. Pershing

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 855 WDA 2023

    Grandparents' supervised physical custody was insufficient to constitute "physical custody" giving them the status of a "person acting as a parent" and thus their residency in Pennsylvania was insufficient to confer continuing jurisdiction over the custody matter to the Pennsylvania courts. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Belfor Prop. Restoration v. Ravenwood Manor, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-12-11
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 291 EDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's motion to strike its lien claim. The court reversed and remanded for further proceedings.

  • Commonwealth v. Watkins

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 2209 EDA 2021

    Use of license plate reader system did not constitute Fourth Amendment search since drivers had no reasonable expectation of privacy in their license plate number or the location of their vehicle in public, and LPR systems could not provide real-time or constant location information unlike GPS trackers. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Fraport Pittsburgh, Inc. v. Allegheny County Airport Auth.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-22
    Practice Area: Government | Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Pellegrini
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    Case Number: 974 WDA 2022

    Agreement with concessions management company was a commercial lease, not a services agreement, where the agreement expressly defined itself as a lease and granted the company with a leasehold interest it could sublet to operators. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • State v. Briggs

    Publication Date: 2022-09-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court Law Division, Law Division
    Judge: Judge Ironson
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    Case Number: 18-08-0647

    Defendant moved to suppress IP data.

  • 128 Moody Rd. LLC v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of the Town of Enfield

    Publication Date: 2022-08-01
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Agriculture | State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Connecticut Superior Court, Hartford J.D., Land Use Docket
    Judge: Judge Berger
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    Case Number: CV-21-6143003

    Court Remands in Part and Dismisses in Part Appeal from Zoning Board of Appeals

  • Commonwealth v. Farkas

    Publication Date: 2022-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 22-0648

    Restitution of benefits paid under Medicaid "participant-directed services" program for hours billed where defendant was instead working at another job was statutorily required upon conviction. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. James

    Publication Date: 2022-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 22-0047

    Appellant appealed his conviction and sentence for simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and court found the garage involved in the incident qualified as an occupied structure. Affirmed.

  • Surf's Up Legacy Partners LLC v. Virgin Fest, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, James G. MacMillan, III, Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric M. George, Kim S. Zeldin, Browne George Ross LLP, Los Angeles CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert K. Beste, Jason Z. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Marvin S. Putnam, Jessica Stebbins Bina, R. Peter Durning, Jr., Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69659

    Motion of law firm to intervene to attach an attorney's lien for a judgment for unpaid legal fees denied where firm's right to attach the lien was contractually limited only to causes of actions that were the subject of the engagement agreement, and the firm sought to intervene in a completely unrelated legal action.

  • Commonwealth v. Morgan

    Publication Date: 2021-08-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 21-0881

    Trial court erred in imposing the same previously vacated aggregate sentence at resentencing without conducting a de novo review of the sentencing record or explaining how the sentence was individualized to the defendant as he appeared before the court at resentencing. Sexually violent predator designation affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded for resentencing.