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  • Oberholzer v. Galapo

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 104 MAP 2022

    Lower courts erred in enjoining property owner from posting signs protesting neighbor's allegedly racist behavior where posting the signs constituted pure speech as it was motivated in part by highlighting the community effects of racism, and thus an injunction constituted an impermissible prior restraint on speech. Order of the superior court vacated in part.

  • Klar v. Dairy Farmers of Am., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 29 WAP 2022

    Lower courts properly held that company's act of purchasing and providing beer for company golf outing was insufficient to trigger civil liability for injuries caused by its intoxicated guest and Dram Shop Act was inapplicable as was common law negligence. Affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Lacombe

    Publication Date: 2020-08-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 20-0853

    Revised Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act provisions did not constitute criminal punishment and therefore were not an unconstitutional ex post facto law when applied to criminal activity committed prior to the statute's effective date. Orders of the trial court reversed.

  • August 18, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Commonwealth v. Muniz, PICS Case No. 17-1251 (Pa. July 19, 2017) Dougherty, J.; Saylor, C.J., dissenting. (85 pages).

    Retroactive application of SORNA's registration provisions violated the Ex Post Facto Clauses of the federal and Pennsylvania Constitutions because the registration provisions constituted punishment as the requirements were akin to tradition forms of punishment like probation or parole. Order of the superior court reversed.

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