Cases

OPINION BY Judge SIMPSON. In these consolidated appeals, BET Le-high Real Estate, LLC (BET) challenges orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County (trial court) that denied its real estate tax assessment appeals for two tax parcels that are underlain by subsurface coal. BET’s primary theory before the trial court was that Schuylkill County’s (County) failure to abide by its statutory mandates to m

IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA Anthony Famageltto and Linda : Famageltto, : : Appellants : : v. : No. 1271 C.D. 2014 : County of Erie Tax Claim Bureau : Submitted: September 16, 2015 and Perry Properties, In

OPINION BY Judge RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER. Anthony Famágeltto and Linda Fama-geltto, husband and wife, (together, Appellants), appeal from a June 23, 2014 Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County (trial court) denying Appellants’ Petition to Set Aside Tax Sale (Petition to Set Aside) of their home at 12769 Route 89, Wattsburg Township, Erie County (Prop

832 A.2d 1143 (2003) GREEN VALLEY DRY CLEANERS, INC., David Rosenblatt and Gail B. Rosenblatt, Appellants, v. WESTMORELAND COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Argued May 6, 2003. Decided September 4, 2003. Reargument Denied October 22, 2003. *1144 Richard T. Victoria, Pi

KELLEY, Judge. The Erie County Board of Assessment Appeals (board) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County (trial court) which (1) reversed a decision by the board denying tax exempt status to a parcel of land owned by the Borough of Wesleyville (Wesleyville) and leased to the County of Erie (County); (2) granted tax exempt status to a parcel of land owned by the Borough of McKean (McKean) and lease

LEVIN, J, Before the court is an appeal by Wesleyville Borough from the decision of the Erie County Board of Assessment Appeals denying their application for exemption from real estate taxes at 3921 Buffalo Road. Since the property is owned by the municipality and used by the lessee as a facility for a district justice, Wesleyville claims that the property is not taxable. On April 3, 1995, this court g

Depuy, P. J., Plaintiff, County of Franklin, filed its complaint in mandamus on May 26, 1964. The complaint avers that the suit is brought by the three members of the Board of Commissioners of Franklin County, that defendant is the sheriff of Franklin County, that plaintiff by its board of commissioners at a regular meeting on January 6, 1964, established hours during which the courthouse offices should be open during the year, na

The Commissioners of Erie County were directed, through proper proceedings, to remodel the old courthouse and enlarge it by adding a new wing. The general plans and specifications were approved, and, after due authorization, a contract was let October 4, 1928, for the general building and remodeling program to Henry Shenk Company for $400,000, to be completed within one year, or October 5, 1929. Shenk's contract did not include the outside facing and fixed office equipment, nor did it include

This is a petition for the abatement of taxes assessed in April, 1893, by the town of Haverhill on the Grafton county farm, courthouse, and jail. The town of Haverhill *Page 121 claims that this public property is taxable, because in the Public Statutes real estate of the counties is omitted from the list of property specifically exempted from taxation. The county of Grafton claims this property is exempt from taxation on general principles. This i

DOMALKES, J., The matter before the court is a motion to compel discovery responses filed by the defendant, Stephen Holmes (hereinafter ‘Holmes’). The plaintiffs, Sonya Hoy and Brock Herb, her son (hereinafter ‘Hoy’ and ‘Herb’), have filed an answer to the motion. The parties have presented written arguments to the court concerning their positions. The court has reviewed the foregoing and the relevant record.

J-A02007-25 2025 PA Super 74 PATRICK J. CARR, PATRICK K. CARR, : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF AND DANIEL K. CARR, : PENNSYLVANIA : Appellants : : v. : : FIRST COMMONWEALTH BANK :

J-A10032-23 2023 PA Super 141 CARLINO EAST BRANDYWINE, L.P. : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA : v. : : : BRANDYWINE VILLAGE : ASSOCIATES, JOHN R. CROPPER, : INDIVIDUALLY AND AS GENERAL : No. 2030 EDA 2022 PARTNER OF BRANDYWINE VILLAGE : ASSOC

J-A28034-19 2020 PA Super 58 THOMAS POWERS : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA Appellant : : : v. : :

J-A28034-19 2020 PA Super 58 THOMAS POWERS : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA Appellant : : : v. : :

MEMORANDUMA. Richard Caputo, United States District Judge *432This case raises the question of whether a public school can lawfully remove a student from an extracurricular activity for her profanity, transmitted off school grounds on a Saturday to fellow students. Plaintiff B.L., a student at Mahanoy Area High School, was dismis

OPINION BY KUNSELMAN, J.: In this matter, we decide whether the trial court afforded sufficient due process to an incarcerated parent who seeks contact with her child. In reaching our conclusion, we determine what forms of custody incarcerated parents retain under the 2011 revisions to Pennsylvania Custody Law.1 And finally, we decide whether the trial court properly analyzed the statutory factors when c

471 B.R. 263 (2012) In re Douglas F. VAUGHAN, Debtor. Yvette Gonzales, Trustee, Plaintiff, v. Saul Ewing, LLP, John Doe[1], and Judith A. Wagner, Chapter 11 Trustee of the bankruptcy estate of the Vaughan Company, Realtors, Defendants. John Doe, Counter-Plaintiff, v. Yvette Gonzales, Trustee, Counter-Defendant. John Doe, Cross-Plaintiff, v. Judith A. Wagner, Chapter 11 Trustee of the bankruptcy estate of the

J-S20012-18 2018 PA Super 192 S.T. : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA Appellant : : : v. : :

NEALON, J., Three of the Geisinger physician defendants in this medical malpractice case have presented a petition to transfer venue from Lackawanna County to Montour County based upon the doctrine of forum non conveniens. Since the petitioners have not met their Cheeseman burden of demonstrating that the plaintiffs’ chosen forum is oppressive or vexatious to the defendants, the request to transfer this action t

OPINION BY JENKINS, J.: These consolidated appeals 1 involve the same issue: whether the trial court in these civil actions abused its discretion by ordering transfer of venue from Philadelphia County to another county under the doctrine of forum non conveniens.